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aristocratic orders, kinship society, and misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia

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aristocratic orders, kinship society, and misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia

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Columbia University Press
Language
English
Pages
289

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Subjects

Aristocracy (Political science), Clans, Politics and government, Power (Social sciences), Tribal government, Power (social sciences), Aristocracy (political science), Asia, central, politics and government, General, Central asia, Historiography, Medieval, Social sciences -> anthropology -> general anthropology, Social sciences -> history -> asian history, Social sciences -> history -> general, Social sciences -> history -> european history

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Central Asia

Times

1991-
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Cover of: The Headless State
The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia
November 28, 2007, Columbia University Press
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Cover of: The headless state
The headless state: aristocratic orders, kinship society, and misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia
2007, Columbia University Press
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Table of 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
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
958/.042
Library of Congress
DS329.4 .S64 2007, DS329.4.S64 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
289

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OL17944501M
Internet Archive
headlessstateari00snea
ISBN 13
9780231140546, 9780231511674
LCCN
2007020899
Library Thing
8820990
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2772672

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