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Oath-bound patronage relation that allows incorporation of outsiders and turns favors, meals, loans, and sacrifices into social power.
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Oath-bound patronage relation that allows incorporation of outsiders and turns favors, meals, loans, and sacrifices into social power.
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"...animals always borrow from those who still have them. The social obligations associated with these loans are institutionalized among the world's pastoralists as a..."
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"...a Christian. The host institution extended the protections of oath -bound obligations to new social groups. An Indo -European speaking patron could accept and..."
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"Praise poetry at public feasts encouraged patrons to be generous and validated the language, the songs as a vehicle for communication with the gods..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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