The Headless State : : Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia / / David Sneath.
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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Sneath, David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Headless State : Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia / David Sneath. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2007] ©2007 1 online resource (288 p.) : 3 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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.Sneath argues that aristocratic power and statelike processes of administration were the true organizers of life on the steppe. Rethinking the traditional dichotomy between state and nonstate societies, Sneath conceives of a "headless state" in which a configuration of statelike power was formed by the horizontal relations among power holders and was reproduced with or without an overarching ruler or central "head." In other words, almost all of the operations of state power existed at the local level, virtually independent of central bureaucratic authority. Sneath's research gives rise to an alternative picture of steppe life in which aristocrats determined the size, scale, and degree of centralization of political power. His history of the region shows no clear distinction between a highly centralized, stratified "state" society and an egalitarian, kin-based "tribal" society. Drawing on his extensive anthropological fieldwork in the region, Sneath persuasively challenges the legitimacy of the tribal model, which continues to distort scholarship on the history of Inner Asia. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Aristocracy (Political science) -- Asia, Central. Aristocracy (Political science) Asia, Central. Asia, Central -- Politics and government -- 1991-. Clans -- Asia, Central. Clans Asia, Central. Power (Social sciences) -- Asia, Central. Power (Social sciences) Asia, Central. Tribal government -- Asia, Central. Tribal government Asia, Central. HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231140546 https://doi.org/10.7312/snea14054 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231511674 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231511674/original |
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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 |
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