The Study of the State
Study of the State
1st Edition
Published on 2. May 2011
XIV, 535 pages
978-3-11-082579-4 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2010
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
8 s/w Tabellen, 8 Abbildungen
8 ill., 8 tbl.
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92,16 MB
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978-3-11-082579-4 (9783110825794)
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Content
- Intro
- 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
- 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 Kushan?a 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: 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
- 25. Ubi sumus? The Study of the State conference in retrospect
- Biographical notes
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
