Ebook: The headless state: aristocratic orders, kinship society & misrepresentations of nomadic inner Asia

Introduction -- The myth of the kinship society : evolutionism and the anthropological imagination -- The imaginary tribe : colonial and imperial orders and the peripheral polity -- The state construction of the clan : the unilineal descent group and the ordering of -- The essentialized nomad : neocolonial and soviet models -- Creating peoples : nation-state history and the notion of identity -- The headless state : aristocratic orders and the substrata of power