The Headless State

Dr David Sneath，Head of Department of Social Anthropology; Reader; Fellow, Corpus Christi college，Cambridge

出版者:Columbia University Press

作者:David Sneath

页数:288

出版时间:2007-12-21

价格:USD 70.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780231140546

图书标签:人类学InnerAsiaAnthropology社会理论游牧帝国史历史中亚

"David Sneath's The Headless State is a long-overdue challenge to the conventional picture of Inner Asian nomads divided up into kin-based 'tribes' and 'clans.' Classic histories and ethnographies are given a provocative new reading via an incisive history of social anthropological doctrines and dogmas. What emerges is both the centrality of the state in Inner Asia and the analytic dangers implicit in the state-society dichotomy. Boldly argued, The Headless State will place Inner Asia at the center of writing on state formation." -- Christopher P. Atwood, chair, Central Eurasian Studies Department, Indiana University

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really a confusing and hard-to-follow book which deals with anthropology, history and sociology, etc. A lot of modern theories. Nonetheless, the argument is really ground-breaking as people are always have some stereotypes about steppe people and their society.

really a confusing and hard-to-follow book which deals with anthropology, history and sociology, etc. A lot of modern theories. Nonetheless, the argument is really ground-breaking as people are always have some stereotypes about steppe people and their society.

It's confusing at the first glance, but after re-reading it finally I found something ground-breaking.

really a confusing and hard-to-follow book which deals with anthropology, history and sociology, etc. A lot of modern theories. Nonetheless, the argument is really ground-breaking as people are always have some stereotypes about steppe people and their society.

It's confusing at the first glance, but after re-reading it finally I found something ground-breaking.