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020			_a9780231140546 (cloth : alk. paper)
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082	0	0	_a958.042 _bSNE/H
100	1		_aSneath, David.
245	1	4	_aThe headless state: aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia/ _cDavid Sneath
260			_aNew York: _bColumbia University Press, _cc2007.
300			_axi, 273 p. : _bmaps ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index.
505	0	0	_g1. _tIntroduction -- _g2. _tThe Myth of the Kinship Society: Evolutionism and the Anthropological Imagination -- _g3. _tThe Imaginary Tribe: Colonial and Imperial Orders and the Peripheral Polity -- _g4. _tThe State Construction of the Clan: The Unilineal Descent Group and the Ordering of State Subjects -- _g5. _tThe Essentialized Nomad: Neocolonial and Soviet Models -- _g6. _tCreating Peoples: Nation-state History and the Notion of Identity -- _g7. _tThe Headless State: Aristocratic Orders and the Substrata of Power.
650			_aPower (Social sciences)
650			_aTribal government
650			_aAsia, Central
650			_aAristocracy (Political science)
650			_aClans
650			_aPolitics and government
942			_cWB16