The headless state : aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia /

The headless state : aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia /

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...

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Main Author: Sneath, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Since 1991
Tribal government > Asia, Central.
Clans > Asia, Central.
Power (Social sciences) > Asia, Central.
Aristocracy (Political science) > Asia, Central.
Asia, Central > Politics and government > 1991-
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The myth of the kinship society : evolutionism and the anthropological imagination
  • The imaginary tribe : colonial and imperial orders and the peripheral polity
  • The state construction of the clan : the unilineal descent group and the ordering of state subjects
  • The essentialized nomad : neocolonial and Soviet models
  • Creating peoples : nation-state history and the notion of identity
  • The headless state : aristocratic orders and the substrata of power.

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