TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abélès,Marc
AU  - Back,Lucien R.
AU  - Bonte,Pierre
AU  - Claessen,Henri J.
AU  - Claessen,Henri J.M.
AU  - Cohen,Ronald
AU  - Drucker-Brown,Susan
AU  - Gunawardana,R.A.L.H.
AU  - Khazanov,Anatolii M.
AU  - Kurtz,Donald V.
AU  - Lewis,Herbert S.
AU  - Lloyd,Peter
AU  - Muller,Jean-Claude
AU  - Narain,A.K.
AU  - Perlin,Frank
AU  - Sellnow,Irmgard
AU  - Seneviratne,Sudharshan
AU  - Showman,Margaret
AU  - Skalnik,Peter
AU  - Skalník,Peter
AU  - Steinhart,Edward I.
AU  - Sugita,Kurumi
AU  - Tamayo y Salmorán,Rolando
AU  - Thapar,Romila
AU  - Tymowski,Michał
AU  - Vitkin,Mikhail A.
AU  - Winzeler,Robert L.
TI  - The Study of the State
T2  - New Babylon : Studies in the Social Sciences ,
SN  - 9789027933485
AV  - GN492.6 .S88 1981
U1  - 306/.2 19
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Political anthropology
KW  - State, The
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - I-XIV --; 1. ‘Sacred kingship’ and formation of the state --; 2. Traditional Rwanda: deconsecrating a sacred kingdom --; 3. Kinship and politics. The formation of the state among the pastoralists of the Sahara and the Sahel --; 4. Specific features of the African early state --; 5. Evolution, fission, and the early state --; 6. The structure of the Mamprusi kingdom and the cult of naam --; 7. Social function and political power: a case study of state formation in irrigation society --; 8. The early state among the Eurasian nomads --; 9. The legitimation of early inchoate states --; 10. Warfare and the origin of the state: another formulation --; 11. West African kingdoms and the early state: a review of some recent analyses --; 12. ‘Divine kingship’ in chiefdoms and states. A single ideological model --; 13. The Kushāṇa state: a preliminary study --; 14. The pre-colonial Indian state in history and epistemology. A reconstruction of societal formation in the Western Deccan from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century --; 15. Ways of state formation in Africa: a demonstration of typical possibilities --; 16. Kalinga and Andhra: the process of secondary state formation in early India --; 17. Some additional thoughts on the concept of the early state --; 18. From ‘empire’ to state: the emergence of the kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara: c. 1350-1890 --; 19. Terrestrial deities and celestial bureaucrats: transformation of the state and local communities in the Asiatic mode of production in Japan --; 20. The state as a problem of jurisprudence --; 21. The state as empire --; 22. The army and the formation of the states of West Africa in the nineteenth century: the cases of Kenedugu and Samori state --; 23. Marx and Weber on the primary state --; 24. The study of the Southeast Asian state --; 25. Ubi sumus? The Study of the State conference in retrospect --; Biographical notes --; Index of names --; Index of subjects; restricted access; Issued also in print
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110825794
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110825794
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110825794/original
ER  -