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

By: Sneath, David.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007Description: xi, 273 p. : maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780231140546 (alk. paper); 0231140541 (alk. paper); 9780231511674 (ebook); 0231511671 (ebook).Subject(s): Tribal government -- Asia, Central | Clans -- Asia, Central | Power (Social sciences) -- Asia, Central | Aristocracy (Political science) -- Asia, Central | Asia, Central -- Politics and government -- 1991-Online resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
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.
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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.

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