The headless state aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia / David Sneath.

Author/creator Sneath, David
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press,
Descriptionxi, 273 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index.
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LCCN 2007020899
ISBN9780231140546 (alk. paper)
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ISBN9780231511674 (ebook)
ISBN0231511671 (ebook)

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