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Jiang's name for the system where food is brought to temples, recorded, redistributed, and used to fund public works and further temple construction.
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temple economy
Jiang's name for the system where food is brought to temples, recorded, redistributed, and used to fund public works and further temple construction.
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"...this civilization grows, the people in charge create something called a temple economy, okay? And this is just a permanent form of taxation. Basically..."
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"And because of this economy, now you need writing. You need to record how much food you have. You have to record who gets..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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