The headless state: aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia/
Sneath, David.
The headless state: aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia/ David Sneath - New York: Columbia University Press, c2007. - xi, 273 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index.
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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
9780231140546 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231140541 (cloth : alk. paper)
Power (Social sciences)
Tribal government
Asia, Central
Aristocracy (Political science)
Clans
Politics and government
958.042 / SNE/H
The headless state: aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia/ David Sneath - New York: Columbia University Press, c2007. - xi, 273 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index.
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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
9780231140546 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231140541 (cloth : alk. paper)
Power (Social sciences)
Tribal government
Asia, Central
Aristocracy (Political science)
Clans
Politics and government
958.042 / SNE/H