Tributary Mode Of Production Research Articles

Fonctions sociales de la religion et structuration du champ religieux dans la monarchie tributaire de I'ancien Kerala

This analysis is related to two periods of the Kerala history, the first one concerning the genesis of the first monarchy, the Chera kingdom at the beginning of the christian era, and the second period concerning the " golden age " of the same kingdom (9th century A.D.). The choice of these two periods can be justified by the two-fold aim of this study : on the one hand to determine what would be the impact of this social relationship on the role of religion in the reproduction of the same social relationship. To wit, this type of social relationship was based upon the protective role of the State in the circulation of the social product and in the organization of production which remained in the hands of the kinship entities, which is typical of a tributary mode of production.

Od feudalizmu do afrykańskiego sposobu produkcji. Problem typologii przednowoczesnych peryferyjnych społeczeństw europejskich

I assert that methodological nationalism (national paradigm) is one of the main reasons of methodological inertia of the current historiography especially in the area of the post-communist European countries. In the current article I argue that comparative history could be a bridge between conventional (mainstream) historiography and approaches of so-called macrohistory. In this context typology should be treated as one of possible methods of comparative history. The most traditional approach of medievalists to articulate classification of pre-modern European societies is consider whether particular pre-modern society is feudal or not. However I argue that this approach is quite complicated because of ambiguity and polysemy of the term. There are at least several Marxist and non-Marxist alternatives like the tributary mode of production, patrimonialism versus feudalism dichotomy or the so-called type/model of early Central European state. The application of the concept of the African mode of production in the case of typology of some European pre-modern peripheral societies despite of its paradoxically looking etimology also is plausible.