7. The Headless State. Aristocratic Orders and the Substrata of Power

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. 2. The Myth of the Kinship. Society Evolutionism and the Anthropological Imagination 39
5. 3. The Imaginary Tribe. Colonial and Imperial Orders and the Peripheral Polity 65
6. 4. The State Construction of the Clan. The Unilineal Descent Group and the Ordering of State Subjects 93
7. 5. The Essentialized Nomad. Neocolonial and Soviet Models 121
8. 6. Creating Peoples. Nation-state History and the Notion of Identity 157
9. 7. The Headless State. Aristocratic Orders and the Substrata of Power 181
10. Notes 205
11. References 239
12. Acknowledgments 261
13. Index 263