{"id":956,"date":"2008-08-05T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T07:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=956"},"modified":"2018-08-12T21:49:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T01:49:45","slug":"16390-%c2%a0-thomas-t-allsen-the-royal-hunt-in-eurasian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"16390.&nbsp;(Thomas T. Allsen) The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=8385\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8385\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8385 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/08-08-05-READ-16390.-Thomas-T.-Allsen-The-Royal-Hunt-in-Eurasian-History-554x1024.jpg\" alt=\"08-08-05 READ 16390. (Thomas T. Allsen) The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History\" width=\"254\" height=\"465\"><\/a><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is an excel\u00adlent book, which demon\u00adstrates that his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans do not have to be sequestered in con\u00adti\u00adnen\u00adtal ghet\u00adtos. Allsen is able to cite the Armen\u00adian and Geor\u00adgian Chron\u00adi\u00adcles, the clas\u00adsics of Indi\u00adan and Per\u00adsian lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture, and the vast bureau\u00adcratic doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion of Chi\u00adna with the same ease and famil\u00adiar\u00adity as when he cites stan\u00addard Euro\u00adpean sources. \u201cEura\u00adsia\u201d actu\u00adally means some\u00adthing to him. In oth\u00ader words, the man is mod\u00adern. With this kind of atti\u00adtude, he is capa\u00adble of address\u00ading a phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon that oth\u00ader his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans have ignored: the Roy\u00adal Hunt. This insti\u00adtu\u00adtion \u2014 which often called up an impres\u00adsive chunk of a society\u2019s resources \u2014 per\u00adsisted as a con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adously inter\u00adcon\u00adnected phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon from the ear\u00adli\u00adest antiq\u00aduity to near-mod\u00adern times. It demon\u00adstrates that the whole super\u00adcon\u00adti\u00adnent of Afro-Eura\u00adsia has been a cul\u00adtural con\u00adtin\u00aduum through\u00adout record\u00aded his\u00adtory, with ideas and cus\u00adtoms trav\u00adel\u00ading back and forth from end to end to end. Allsen tries to get some sort of han\u00addle on how and why the rulers of states engaged in spec\u00adtac\u00adu\u00adlar col\u00adlec\u00adtive hunt\u00ading expe\u00addi\u00adtions and main\u00adtained vast \u201cgame parks\u201d, a cus\u00adtom which tran\u00adscended all the bar\u00adri\u00aders of empire, lan\u00adguage, ecosys\u00adtem, and reli\u00adgion. His work has no \u201cthe\u00adory\u201d behind it, only a relent\u00adless curios\u00adity and a respect for the sources. The only defi\u00adciency that I found was that he seemed to nev\u00ader ask the ques\u00adtion \u201cwhat hap\u00adpened to the meat?\u201d. It\u2019s my hunch that he could have reached a more com\u00adplete under\u00adstand\u00ading of the phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon if he had explored the issues of who got to eat the vast quan\u00adti\u00adties of meat that these hunts pro\u00adduced, how it was dis\u00adtrib\u00aduted, and how this dis\u00adtri\u00adb\u00adu\u00adtion served social and polit\u00adi\u00adcal ends. I\u2019ve noticed that there is a sim\u00adi\u00adlar absense of the ques\u00adtion in stud\u00adies of Rome\u2019s \u201cgames\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an excel\u00adlent book, which demon\u00adstrates that his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans do not have to be sequestered in con\u00adti\u00adnen\u00adtal ghet\u00adtos. Allsen is able to cite the Armen\u00adian and Geor\u00adgian Chron\u00adi\u00adcles, the clas\u00adsics of Indi\u00adan and Per\u00adsian lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture, and the vast bureau\u00adcratic documentation&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=956\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bs-reading-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8386,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/8386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}