TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sneath,David
TI  - The headless state: aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia
SN  - 9780231140546 (cloth : alk. paper)
U1  - 958.042 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Tribal government
KW  - Asia, Central
KW  - Aristocracy (Political science)
KW  - Clans
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index; 1; Introduction --; 2; The Myth of the Kinship Society: Evolutionism and the Anthropological Imagination --; 3; The Imaginary Tribe: Colonial and Imperial Orders and the Peripheral Polity --; 4; The State Construction of the Clan: The Unilineal Descent Group and the Ordering of State Subjects --; 5; The Essentialized Nomad: Neocolonial and Soviet Models --; 6; Creating Peoples: Nation-state History and the Notion of Identity --; 7; The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders and the Substrata of Power
ER  -