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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barfield, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1950- (Editor ), Bondarenko, D. M. (Editor ), Kradin, N. N. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [United States] : MeaBooks Inc : Made available through hoopla, 2003.
Colección:Serii͡a "T͡Sivilizat͡sionnoe izmerenie" ; t. 5.
Temas:
Social evolution.
Nomads.
Évolution sociale.
Nomades.
nomads.
nomadism.
Poetry by individual poets.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. INTRODUCTION: SOCIAL EVOLUTION, ALTERNATIVES, AND NOMADISM
  • Evolution and alternatives
  • Alternativity in evolution
  • Nomads in evolution
  • Nomadic alternative
  • Some comments to other chapters of the volume
  • 2. NOMADS OF THE EURASIAN STEPPES IN HISTORICAL RETROSPECTIVE
  • 3. TYPOLOGY OF PRE-STATES AND STATEHOOD SYSTEMS OF NOMADS
  • 4. CULTURAL CAPITAL, LIVESTOCK RAIDING, AND THE MILITARY ADVANTAGE OF TRADITIONAL PASTORALISTS
  • Introduction
  • Cultural Capital: The Concept and an Example.
  • The Cultural Capital of Pastoral Nomads
  • Military Power among Pastoral Nomads
  • Modernization
  • Ibn Khaldun's Social Law
  • Endnotes
  • 5. NOMADIC EMPIRES:ORIGINS, RISE, DECLINE
  • Nomadic Empire: what is it?
  • How did nomads come to empire?
  • Pathways of origins for nomadic empires
  • Types of nomadic empires
  • The Structure of Nomadic Empire
  • Nomadic empires and settled civilizations
  • Decline and Fall of Nomadic Empires
  • 6. PECULIARITIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SARMATO-ALANS AND THEIR IMAGE IN THE EVIDENCE OF OTHER CULTURES.
  • 7. THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIERARCHICALS TRUCTURES IN THE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGE SOCIETIES OF THE SOUTH OF EASTERN EUROPE
  • 8. PENETRATION OF NOMADS TO THE ARABIAN SOUTH AND FORMATION OF TRIBAL ORANIZATION AMONG THE NORTH-EAST YEMEN AGRICULTURAL POPULATION*
  • 9. MODES OF POLITOGENESIS AMONGTHE TSWANA OF SOUTH AFRICA
  • 10. POWER AMONG MONGOL NOMADS OFCHINGGIS KHAN'S EPOCH
  • 11. POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE TURKIC-MONGOLIAN NOMADS IN HISTORICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
  • 1. Sulde: Political Terminology of Eurasian Nomads
  • 2. Ritual political violence among nomads of Eurasia.
  • 3. Practice of ravage/destruction of graves
  • 4. Standard in Military Culture and its Semantics
  • 12. THE CHINGGISIDS AND THEIR STATUS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND EAST EUROPE
  • 13. GOVERNMENT OF THE TURKISTAN REGION NATIVE POPULATION IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
  • 14. CONCLUSION
  • Defining nomadic pastoralists
  • Cultural ecology of nomadic pastoralists
  • Levels of social complexity
  • An evolutionary sequence?
  • List of Contributors
  • Back cover.

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