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Record Number
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1002077
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b756447
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Main Entry
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Sneath, David
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Title & Author
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The headless state : : aristocratic orders, kinship society, misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia /\ David Sneath.
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Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, ©2007.
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Page. NO
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1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) :: maps
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ISBN
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0231511671
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: 9780231511674
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0231140541
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9780231140546
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-259) and index.
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Contents
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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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Abstract
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In this groundbreaking work, social anthropologist David Sneath aggressively dispels the myths surrounding the history of steppe societies and proposes a new understanding of the nature and formation of the state. Since the colonial era, representations of Inner Asia have been dominated by images of fierce nomads organized into clans and tribes-but as Sneath reveals, these representations have no sound basis in historical fact. Rather, they are the product of nineteenth-century evolutionist social theory, which saw kinship as the organizing principle in a nonstate society. Sneath.
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Subject
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Aristocracy (Political science)-- Asia, Central.
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Clans-- Asia, Central.
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Power (Social sciences)-- Asia, Central.
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Tribal government-- Asia, Central.
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Aristocracy (Political science)
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Asia.
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Asian history.
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Clans.
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HISTORY-- Asia-- Central Asia.
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HISTORY-- Asia-- General.
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History.
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Politics and government
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Power (Social sciences)
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Social cultural anthropology.
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Tribal government.
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Adel.
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Politieke macht.
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Staat (politicologie)
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Steppen.
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Asia, Central, Politics and government, 1991-
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Azië.
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Central Asia.
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Dewey Classification
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958/.042
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LC Classification
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DS329.4.S64 2007
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NLM classification
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73.72bcl
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73.72.bcl
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