The Headless State : Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia / David Sneath
2007, 1st edition. New York, NY : Columbia University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #424051
ISBN: 9780231140546
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).
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