The Study of the State / / ed. by Henri J. Claessen, Peter Skalnik.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Abélès, Marc,; Back, Lucien R.,; Bonte, Pierre,; Claessen, Henri J.M.,; Cohen, Ronald,; Drucker-Brown, Susan,; Gunawardana, R.A.L.H.,; Khazanov, Anatolii M.,; Kurtz, Donald V.,; Lewis, Herbert S.,; Lloyd, Peter,; Muller, Jean-Claude,; Narain, A. K.,; Perlin, Frank,; Sellnow, Irmgard,; Seneviratne, Sudharshan,; Showman, Margaret,; Skalník, Peter,; Steinhart, Edward I.,; Sugita, Kurumi,; Tamayo y Salmorán, Rolando,; Thapar, Romila,; Tymowski, Michał,; Vitkin, Mikhail A.,; Winzeler, Robert L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Claessen, Henri J.,; Skalnik, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1981
• Godina izdanja: 2011
• Izdanje: Reprint 2010
• Jezik: English
• Serija: New Babylon : Studies in the Social Sciences , 35
• Opis: 1 online resource (535 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110825794; 9783110637922
• ISSN: 0077-801X
• Digitalni identifikator objekta: 10.1515/9783110825794
• Pristup: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Henri J. Claessen, Peter Skalnik.