The Study of the State

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 1981

The Study of the State

Edited by: Henri J. Claessen and Peter Skalnik

Volume 35 in the series New Babylon

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110825794

Contents

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1. ‘Sacred kingship’ and formation of the state Marc Abélès Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Traditional Rwanda: deconsecrating a sacred kingdom Lucien R. Back Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. Kinship and politics. The formation of the state among the pastoralists of the Sahara and the Sahel Pierre Bonte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
4. Specific features of the African early state Henri J.M. Claessen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
5. Evolution, fission, and the early state Ronald Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6. The structure of the Mamprusi kingdom and the cult of naam Susan Drucker-Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7. Social function and political power: a case study of state formation in irrigation society R.A.L.H. Gunawardana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
8. The early state among the Eurasian nomads Anatolii M. Khazanov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
9. The legitimation of early inchoate states Donald V. Kurtz and Margaret Showman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
10. Warfare and the origin of the state: another formulation Herbert S. Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
11. West African kingdoms and the early state: a review of some recent analyses Peter Lloyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
12. ‘Divine kingship’ in chiefdoms and states. A single ideological model Jean-Claude Muller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
13. The Kushāṇa state: a preliminary study A. K. Narain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
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 Frank Perlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
15. Ways of state formation in Africa: a demonstration of typical possibilities Irmgard Sellnow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
16. Kalinga and Andhra: the process of secondary state formation in early India Sudharshan Seneviratne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
17. Some additional thoughts on the concept of the early state Peter Skalník Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
18. From ‘empire’ to state: the emergence of the kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara: c. 1350-1890 Edward I. Steinhart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
19. Terrestrial deities and celestial bureaucrats: transformation of the state and local communities in the Asiatic mode of production in Japan Kurumi Sugita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
20. The state as a problem of jurisprudence Rolando Tamayo y Salmorán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
21. The state as empire Romila Thapar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
22. The army and the formation of the states of West Africa in the nineteenth century: the cases of Kenedugu and Samori state Michał Tymowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
23. Marx and Weber on the primary state Mikhail A. Vitkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
24. The study of the Southeast Asian state Robert L. Winzeler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
25. Ubi sumus? The Study of the State conference in retrospect Henri J.M. Claessen and Peter Skalník Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
Biographical notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	519
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2010
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 535
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
- Tables: 8
Keywords: State, The; Political anthropology

eBook

Published: May 2, 2011
ISBN: 9783110825794

Hardcover

Published: October 1, 1981
ISBN: 9789027933485