The headless state
Subtitle: aristocratic orders, kinship society, and misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia
By: David Sneath.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780231140546; 9780231511674
Subjects: Tribal government -- Asia, Central; Clans -- Asia, Central; Power (Social sciences) -- Asia, Central; Aristocracy (Political science) -- Asia, Central; Asia, Central -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The myth of the kinship society : evolutionism and the anthropological imagination; title: The imaginary tribe : colonial and imperial orders and the peripheral polity; title: The state construction of the clan : the unilineal descent group and the ordering of; title: The essentialized nomad : neocolonial and soviet models; title: Creating peoples : nation-state history and the notion of identity; title: The headless state : aristocratic orders and the substrata of power.