托马斯·巴菲尔德眼中游牧民族的边界战略——读《危险的边疆:游牧帝国与中国》

Thomas barfield eyes the boundary of the nomadic strategy——read "dangerous frontier:the nomadic empire and China"

美国人类学家托马斯·巴菲尔德在《危险的边疆:游牧帝国与中国》一书中,从独特的视角出发,将历史主体性给了游牧者,并在此基础上提出了游牧民族"内部、外部边界战略"模式,游牧民族根据自身发展情况,从外部边界战略转向内部边界战略,再复归外部边界战略,形成一个战略周期。不管游牧民族选择实施内部还是外部边界战略,都有其自身和中原王朝两方面的原因,为我们重新认识北部边疆提供了新的视角。

American anthropologist Thomas barfield in the dangerous frontier： the nomadic empire and the Chinese, from the unique perspective of the history of subjectivity to the nomads, and based on this, advances the nomads＇ internal and external boundary strategy mode, the nomadic people according to their own development condition, from external boundary strategy into the internal boundary strategy, then reset the external boundary strategy, forming a strategic cycle. Regardless of nomadic people choose to carry out the strategy of internal and external boundary, there are two aspects of its own and the central plains dynasty, provides a new perspective for us to know the northern frontier.