ISBN:
9789027933485
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 535 S.)
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Ill.
Series Statement:
New Babylon 35
Parallel Title:
Print version The Study of the State
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Study of the State
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; List of contributors; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Warfare and the origin of the state: another formulation11. 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
Description / Table of Contents:
17. Some additional thoughts on the concept of the early state18. From 'empire' to state: the emergence of the kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara: c. 1350-1890; 19. Terrestrial deities and celestial bureaucrats: transfor¬mation 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
Description / Table of Contents:
25. Ubi sumus? The Study of the State conference in retrospectBiographical notes; Index of names; Index of subjects
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1515/9783110825794
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