The headless state : aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia /
David Sneath.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
- xi, 273 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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.