Akuto and Rural Conflict in Medieval Japan

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Editorial: University of Hawai'i Press, US, 2022

0824875354 / 9780824875350

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This volume offers the first in-depth analysis in English of an understudied phenomenon in medieval Japanese history: the so-called akuto (literally, "evil bands"). Employing chronicles, laws, and legal documents from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, as well as recent Japanese scholarship, Morten Oxenboell examines the significance of akuto in legal proceedings to provide a nuanced understanding of how rural communities organized for and engaged in violent conflicts. He deconstructs the image of akuto as instigators of violence by underlining the significance of the term as a rhetorical device used by litigants to voice their grievances in Kamakura legal proceedings. The many instances in which akuto appear offer a clear example of the ways in which the new legal vocabulary concealed realities behind rhetorical flourishes and narratives of violence and predation. Violence was certainly a part of the negotiation for rights and privileges in the estate system, and Oxenboell demonstrates how conflicts developed and were untangled by local actors, who were rarely given a voice in sources from this period. By peeling away the rhetoric, he presents us a unique view of rural populations organizing their communities in the face of violence, whether as victims of outside aggression or as aggressors themselves against landlords or neighbors.The book therefore goes beyond the usual focus on elites in medieval Japanese history by concentrating on local mobilization schemes and strategies, which were often framed and defamed by central elites. Rural residents, who could not rely on the authorities for protection, handled their own security concerns via complex social mechanisms that tied together locals and absentee landlords in an uneasy relationship of mutual dependency. By examining the fissures in this relationship-in the form of akuto complaints-Oxenboell shows that violent activism was part of the daily management of estates and that such conflicts do not indicate an absence of order but rather a system of checks and balances that helped create a vibrant society.…

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Título
Akuto and Rural Conflict in Medieval Japan
Autor
Morten Oxenboell
Editorial
University of Hawai'i Press, US
Año de publicación
2022
Estado
New
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0824875354
ISBN 13
9780824875350
Peso del artículo
343 gramos

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