Nomadic pathways in social evolution /
The book is written by anthropologists, historians, and archaeologists specializing in nomadic studies. All the chapters presented here discuss various aspects of one significant problem: how could small nomadic peoples at the outskirts of agricultural civilizations subjugate vast territories betwee...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Lac-Beauport [Quebec] :
Meabooks Inc.,
[2015]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015. |
Colección: | Serii͡a "T͡Sivilizat͡sionnoe izmerenie" ;
t. 5. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction : social evolution, alternatives, and nomadism / Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Andrey V. Korotayev and Nikolay N. Kradin
- Nomads of the Eurasian steppes in historical retrospective / Anatoly Khazanov
- Typology of pre-states and statehood systems of nomads / Sergey A. Vasjutin
- Cultural capital, livestock raiding, and the military advantage of traditional pastoralists / William Irons
- Nomadic empires : origins, rise, decline / Nikolay N. Kradin
- Peculiarities of social development of the Sarmato-Alans and their image in the evidence of other cultures / Sergey A. Yatsenko
- The development of hierarchical structures in the Bronze and Early Iron Age societies of the South of Eastern Europe / Allexander P. Medvedev
- Penetration of nomads to the Arabian South and formation of tribal organization among the North-East Yemen agricultural population / Andrey V. Korotayev
- Modes of politogenesis among the Tswana of South Africa / Alexander A. Kazankov
- Power among Mongol nomads of Chinggis Khan's epoch / Tatyana D. Skrynnikova
- Political culture of the Turkic-Mongolian nomads in historical and ethnological perspective / Sergey V. Dmitriev
- The Chinggisids and their status in Central Asia and East Europe / Dmitri Yu. Arapov
- Government of the Turkistan region native population in the Russian Empire / Dmitri V. Vassiliev
- Conclusion / Thomas J. Barfield.