9780231140546 - The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, & Misrepresentations o... (4 Ergebnisse)

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 3 maps. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index. Contents; Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Myth of the Kinship. Society Evolutionism and the Anthropological Imagination -- 3. The Imaginary Tribe. Colonial and Imperial Orders and the Peripheral Polity -- 4. The State Construction of the Clan. The Unilineal Descent Group and the Ordering of State Subjects -- 5. The Essentialized Nomad. Neocolonial and Soviet Models -- 6. Creating Peoples. Nation-state History and the Notion of Identity -- 7. The Headless State. Aristocratic Orders and the Substrata of Power -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index. Subjects; Since 1991. Aristocracy (Political science) Asia, Central. Clans Asia, Central. Power (Social sciences) Asia, Central. Tribal government Asia, Central. Tribal government. History. Aristocracy (Political science). Clans. Politics and government. Power (Social sciences). 3 Kg.

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Zustand: New. Dispels the myths surrounding the history of steppe societies and proposes a fresh understanding of the nature and formation of the state. Drawing on his extensive anthropological fieldwork in the region, the author persuasively challenges the legitimacy of.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this groundbreaking work, social anthropologist David Sneath aggressively dispels the myths surrounding the history of steppe societies and proposes a new understanding of the nature and formation of the state. Since the colonial era, representations of Inner Asia have been dominated by images of fierce nomads organized into clans and tribes-but as Sneath reveals, these representations have no sound basis in historical fact. Rather, they are the product of nineteenth-century evolutionist social theory, which saw kinship as the organizing principle in a nonstate society.