The headless state: aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia/ David Sneath
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 958.042 SNE/H (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P04379 |
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.
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