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

By: Sneath, DavidMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Columbia University Press, c2007Description: xi, 273 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780231140546 (cloth : alk. paper); 0231140541 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Power (Social sciences) | Tribal government | Asia, Central | Aristocracy (Political science) | Clans | Politics and governmentDDC classification: 958.042
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index.

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.

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