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The Headless State

The Headless State PDF Author: David Sneath
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231140541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
"Sneath argues that aristocratic power and statelike processes of administration were the true organizers of life on the steppe. Rethinking the traditional dichotomy between state and nonstate societies, Sneath conceives of a "headless state" in which a configuration of statelike power was formed by the horizontal relations among power holders and was reproduced with or without an overarching ruler or central "head." In other words, almost all of the operations of state power existed at the local level, virtually independent of central bureaucratic authority.".
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