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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 3 maps |
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Table of 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