Format:
Online-Ressource (287 p)
ISBN:
9780231140546
Content:
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 argues that ar
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; Notes; References; Acknowledgments; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231511674
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231140546
Additional Edition:
Print version The Headless State : Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia
Language:
English
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