Capturing people, sometimes by taking relatives hostage, is a common practice for purposes of conscription and law enforcement in the Wa State of Myanmar. Given the unreliability of the local census, as well as the relative weakness of civil government, and registration in a de facto state governed by an insurgent army, the personal politics of capture provides a functional equivalent to state legibility. This personal politics operates based on the reorganization of personal networks between representatives of the military state and ordinary people: first, circles of acquaintances within the military state that provide access to local knowledge, and second, relationships of patronage formed on the basis of those new acquaintanceships, as well as connections of kinship and co-residence. Conscription by capture, however, also requires anonymity; that is, the passive non-recognition of mutuality with strangers and the active refusal of mutuality with acquaintances. This article describes the historical emergence of networks of acquaintances and relationships of patronage as a combination of Maoist state-building and local institutions of war capture and adoption. It demonstrates how conscription by capture relies on relationships of acquaintances and nonrecognition, as well as on patronage and the refusal of mutuality. The politics of conscription by capture are contrasted with conscription in imperial states and contemporary nation-states.

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缅甸佤邦的俘虏征兵：熟人、匿名、赞助和拒绝相互

在缅甸佤邦，为了征兵和执法目的，抓人（有时是通过将亲属扣为人质）是一种常见做法。鉴于地方人口普查的不可靠性，以及公民政府的相对薄弱，以及在叛乱军队统治的事实上的国家进行登记，俘虏的个人政治提供了与国家易读性等价的功能。这种个人政治的运作基于军事国家代表与普通民众之间个人网络的重组：首先，军事国家内的熟人圈提供获取当地知识的途径，其次，在这些新认识的基础上形成的赞助关系。相识，以及亲属和共同居住的联系。然而，通过俘虏征兵也需要匿名；即被动不承认与陌生人交往，主动拒绝与熟人交往。本文描述了作为毛主义国家建设和地方战争俘获和收养机构相结合的熟人网络和赞助关系的历史出现。它展示了通过俘虏征兵如何依赖于熟人和不被承认的关系，以及赞助和拒绝相互关系。俘虏政治与帝国国家和当代民族国家的征兵形成鲜明对比。本文描述了作为毛主义国家建设和地方战争俘获和收养机构相结合的熟人网络和赞助关系的历史出现。它展示了通过俘虏征兵如何依赖于熟人和不被承认的关系，以及赞助和拒绝相互关系。俘虏政治与帝国国家和当代民族国家的征兵形成鲜明对比。本文描述了作为毛主义国家建设和地方战争俘获和收养机构相结合的熟人网络和赞助关系的历史出现。它展示了通过俘虏征兵如何依赖于熟人和不被承认的关系，以及赞助和拒绝相互关系。俘虏政治与帝国国家和当代民族国家的征兵形成鲜明对比。