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The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia by David Sneath (review)

The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner... BOOK REVIEWS The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia. David Sneath. New Y ork: Columbia University Press, 2007. 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-231-14054-6 Reviewed by Nikolay N. Kradin, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladiv ostok More than two decades ago, I wrote the cause it can be used against everyone. One can accuse every anthropologist of colo- first book dealing with the debates of Rus- sian scholars concerning nomadic feudalism nialism and essentialism and any theory of ( Kradin 1987). The peculiarities of nomadic unfounded constructivism. Charging the ma- societies have been of interest to me for many jority of Western and Russian nomadologists years. Because of this, I opened the first page with colonialism, Sneath’s analysis neverthe- of The Headless State by David Sneath with less exemplifies colonialist anthropology. For great excitement and stopped reading only example, he uses only publications written when the book was finished. in English (mainly authors from Great Britain The book consists of seven chapters. In the and the United States) as if all other scholarly introduction, Sneath starts with an intriguing works on this issue http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Perspectives University of Hawai'I Press

The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia by David Sneath (review)

Kradin, N. N.
Asian Perspectives , Volume 51 (1) – Dec 18, 2013
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BOOK REVIEWS The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia. David Sneath. New Y ork: Columbia University Press, 2007. 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-231-14054-6 Reviewed by Nikolay N. Kradin, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladiv ostok More than two decades ago, I wrote the cause it can be used against everyone. One can accuse every anthropologist of colo- first book dealing with the debates of Rus- sian scholars concerning nomadic feudalism nialism and essentialism and any theory of ( Kradin 1987). The peculiarities of nomadic unfounded constructivism. Charging the ma- societies have been of interest to me for many jority of Western and Russian nomadologists years. Because of this, I opened the first page with colonialism, Sneath’s analysis neverthe- of The Headless State by David Sneath with less exemplifies colonialist anthropology. For great excitement and stopped reading only example, he uses only publications written when the book was finished. in English (mainly authors from Great Britain The book consists of seven chapters. In the and the United States) as if all other scholarly introduction, Sneath starts with an intriguing works on this issue

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