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legitimacy, transmission and the sacred

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legitimacy, transmission and the sacred

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Representing power in ancient Inner Asia: legitimacy, transmission and the sacred
2010, Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, Western Washington Univ
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Table of Contents

Preface / Peter B. Golden
Representing power in ancient Inner Asia : legitimacy, transmission and the sacred : introduction / Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon
The acquisition, the legitimation, the confirmation and the limitations of political power in medieval Inner Asia / Denis Sinor
Legitimizing a low-born, regicide monarch : the case of the Mamluk Sultan Baybars and the Ilkhans in the thirteenth century / Denise Aigle
Explaining rituals and writing history : tactics against the intermediate class / Christopher P. Atwood
Rivalry between Mongols and Tayiči'ut for authority : Kiyat-Borǰigin genealogy / Tatiana D. Skrynnikova
To impress the soul : a technological transfer / Françoise Aubin
From ongon to icon : legitimization, glorification and divinization of power in some examples of Mongol portraits / Isabelle Charleux
Nurhaci's names / Nicola Di Cosmo
Sülde : la formation d'une teminologie militaro-politique chez les nomades médiévaux d'Eurasie / Sergei V. Dmitriev
Structure of society and power in the ancient Inner Asian nomadic empires : Xiongnu and Xianbei / Nikolai N. Kradin
Une "dualité" du pouvoir? : empire terrestre et inspiration divine dans la légende arabe d'Alexandre et de Khidr / François de Polignac
Pax Mongolica, Pax Mongolorum / Ts. Shagdarsürüng
The headless state in Inner Asia : reconsidering kinship society and the discourse of tribalism / David Sneath.

Edition Notes

"This symposium was held in Paris in March 23-25, 2006. It was organized by the Centre d'études mongoles et sibériennes of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) "--P. 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions chiefly in English; 2 in French.

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Bellingham, WA
Series
Studies on East Asia -- v. 30, Studies on East Asia -- v. 30.

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Library of Congress
DS327.5 .R465 2010

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Pagination
xvi, 430 p. [18] p. of plates
Number of pages
430

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44816521M
ISBN 10
0914584316
ISBN 13
9780914584315
OCLC/WorldCat
694771712

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