The Study of the State / / ed. by Henri J. Claessen, Peter Skalnik.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©1981 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Reprint 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | New Babylon : Studies in the Social Sciences ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (535 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- I-XIV
- 1. ‘Sacred kingship’ and formation of the state
- 2. Traditional Rwanda: deconsecrating a sacred kingdom
- 3. Kinship and politics. The formation of the state among the pastoralists of the Sahara and the Sahel
- 4. Specific features of the African early state
- 5. Evolution, fission, and the early state
- 6. The structure of the Mamprusi kingdom and the cult of naam
- 7. Social function and political power: a case study of state formation in irrigation society
- 8. The early state among the Eurasian nomads
- 9. The legitimation of early inchoate states
- 10. Warfare and the origin of the state: another formulation
- 11. West African kingdoms and the early state: a review of some recent analyses
- 12. ‘Divine kingship’ in chiefdoms and states. A single ideological model
- 13. The Kushāṇa state: a preliminary study
- 14. The pre-colonial Indian state in history and epistemology. A reconstruction of societal formation in the Western Deccan from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century
- 15. Ways of state formation in Africa: a demonstration of typical possibilities
- 16. Kalinga and Andhra: the process of secondary state formation in early India
- 17. Some additional thoughts on the concept of the early state
- 18. From ‘empire’ to state: the emergence of the kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara: c. 1350-1890
- 19. Terrestrial deities and celestial bureaucrats: transformation of the state and local communities in the Asiatic mode of production in Japan
- 20. The state as a problem of jurisprudence
- 21. The state as empire
- 22. The army and the formation of the states of West Africa in the nineteenth century: the cases of Kenedugu and Samori state
- 23. Marx and Weber on the primary state
- 24. The study of the Southeast Asian state
- 25. Ubi sumus? The Study of the State conference in retrospect
- Biographical notes
- Index of names
- Index of subjects