Una cuestión de patrones y clientes. Acerca de la organización social y el poder polí­tico en la antigua palestina

Abstract

During the last three decades, the methods of historical investigation of the society in the ancient Palestine have experienced a considerable progress from the days when the Bible was taken as primary and main source of historical reconstruction. The new perspectives give privilege to the help of several social disciplines, such as, anthropoly, sociology, ethnography. At the present communication we use the information from the ethnography registry with the perspectives of the anthropological theory to try and solve the problem of the social organization in Palestine in the Middle East. The combination of this information with the analysis of old sociopolitical practices indicates us that the kinship, and mainly, the patronage relationships were the sociopolitical practices that dominated this societies. As a result, the preeminence [predominance] of this sociopolitical practices were a considerable obstacle to the beginning of a native state policy on the region. As a consecuence, an agreement on the analytic primacy of the concept of "patronage societies" over the "state societies" or "class societies" can lead us to a better understanding of the sociopolitical dinamyc of the old Palestine.