Representing power in ancient Inner Asia
Subtitle: legitimacy, transmission and the sacred
By: edited by Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon, and Scott Pearce
Contributors: Centre d'études mongoles et sibériennes (Paris, France)
Series: Studies on East Asia -- v. 30; Studies on East Asia -- v. 30.
Publisher: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University; Western Washington Univ
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bellingham, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780914584315
Subjects: Power (Social sciences); Congresses; History; Legitimacy of governments; Politics and government; Symbolism in politics; Mongols; Terminology
Notes: "This symposium was held in Paris in March 23-25, 2006. It was organized by the Centre d'études mongoles et sibériennes of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) "--P. 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions chiefly in English; 2 in French.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Peter B. Golden; title: Representing power in ancient Inner Asia : legitimacy, transmission and the sacred : introduction / Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon; title: The acquisition, the legitimation, the confirmation and the limitations of political power in medieval Inner Asia / Denis Sinor; title: Legitimizing a low-born, regicide monarch : the case of the Mamluk Sultan Baybars and the Ilkhans in the thirteenth century / Denise Aigle; title: Explaining rituals and writing history : tactics against the intermediate class / Christopher P. Atwood; title: Rivalry between Mongols and Tayiči'ut for authority : Kiyat-Borǰigin genealogy / Tatiana D. Skrynnikova; title: To impress the soul : a technological transfer / Françoise Aubin; title: From ongon to icon : legitimization, glorification and divinization of power in some examples of Mongol portraits / Isabelle Charleux; title: Nurhaci's names / Nicola Di Cosmo; title: Sülde : la formation d'une teminologie militaro-politique chez les nomades médiévaux d'Eurasie / Sergei V. Dmitriev; title: Structure of society and power in the ancient Inner Asian nomadic empires : Xiongnu and Xianbei / Nikolai N. Kradin; title: Une "dualité" du pouvoir? : empire terrestre et inspiration divine dans la légende arabe d'Alexandre et de Khidr / François de Polignac; title: Pax Mongolica, Pax Mongolorum / Ts. Shagdarsürüng; title: The headless state in Inner Asia : reconsidering kinship society and the discourse of tribalism / David Sneath.