Ideology and the Formation of Early States
Edited by Henri J.M. Claessen, Leiden University, and Jarich G. Oosten, Leiden University
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Biographical note
Henri J.M. Claessen, Ph.D. (1970) Amsterdam, is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His main fields of interest are the evolution of socio-political organization, early state formation, traditional Polynesia. He has published widely on these subjects.
Jarich G. Oosten, Ph.D. (1976) University of Groningen, is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His main fields of interest are structuralist anthropology, early European cultures, Arctic cultures. He has published on Indo-European mythology and Arctic religions.
Jarich G. Oosten, Ph.D. (1976) University of Groningen, is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His main fields of interest are structuralist anthropology, early European cultures, Arctic cultures. He has published on Indo-European mythology and Arctic religions.
Readership
The book is of interest to anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, political scientists and all those concerned with the complex interaction of ideological and political developments in processes of state formation.
Table of contents
Preface, Henri J.M. Claessen and Jarich G. Oosten
Introduction, Henri J.M. Claessen and Jarich G. Oosten
WEST AFRICA
Ideological problems and the problem of ideology: reflections on integration and strain in pre-colonial West-Africa, Patricia A. Shifferd
The sacred ruler as the ideological centre of an early state. The precolonial states of the Bight of Benin Coast, Natalia B. Kochakova
Intellectual elites and the production of ideology, Thomas Fillitz
Ideological and symbolic authority: political culture in Nanun, Northern Ghana, Peter Skalník
Ideology and dynamics in Dìì chiefdoms. A study of territorial movement and population fluctuation (Andamawa Province, Cameroon), Jean-Claude Muller
CENTRAL AND NORTH ASIA
Spiritual geography and political legitimacy in the eastern steppe, Thomas T. Allsen
The role and contents of ideology in the early nomadic empires of the Eurasian steppes, Elçin Kürsat-Ahlers
Ideology and the formation of an early state in Northeast China, Sarah M. Nelson
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Ideology and the nature of political consolidation and expansion: an archaeological case, Shereen Ratnagar
Lack of limits – cultural aspects of state formation in early continental Southeast Asia, Renée Hagesteijn
Indigenous power, hierarchy and dominance: state formation in Orissa, India, Akio Tanabe
EUROPE
Ideology and the development of European kingdoms, Jarich Oosten
Oral tradition, dynastic legend and legitimation of ducal power in the process of the formation of the Polish state, Michal Tymowski
MESOAMERICA
Class and state in Aztec official ideology, Frederic Hicks
Hegemonic culturation and work in state formations, Donald V. Kurtz
POLYNESIA
Embodied Ideas. An essay on ritual and politics in pre-capitalist society, Thomas Bargatzky
Ideological perspectives of the development of kingship in the early states of Hawaii, Martin van Bakel
Ideology and the Formation of Early States: Data from Polynesia, Henri J.M. Claessen
Discussion and considerations, Henri J.M. Claessen and Jarich G. Oosten
Contributors
Index
Introduction, Henri J.M. Claessen and Jarich G. Oosten
WEST AFRICA
Ideological problems and the problem of ideology: reflections on integration and strain in pre-colonial West-Africa, Patricia A. Shifferd
The sacred ruler as the ideological centre of an early state. The precolonial states of the Bight of Benin Coast, Natalia B. Kochakova
Intellectual elites and the production of ideology, Thomas Fillitz
Ideological and symbolic authority: political culture in Nanun, Northern Ghana, Peter Skalník
Ideology and dynamics in Dìì chiefdoms. A study of territorial movement and population fluctuation (Andamawa Province, Cameroon), Jean-Claude Muller
CENTRAL AND NORTH ASIA
Spiritual geography and political legitimacy in the eastern steppe, Thomas T. Allsen
The role and contents of ideology in the early nomadic empires of the Eurasian steppes, Elçin Kürsat-Ahlers
Ideology and the formation of an early state in Northeast China, Sarah M. Nelson
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Ideology and the nature of political consolidation and expansion: an archaeological case, Shereen Ratnagar
Lack of limits – cultural aspects of state formation in early continental Southeast Asia, Renée Hagesteijn
Indigenous power, hierarchy and dominance: state formation in Orissa, India, Akio Tanabe
EUROPE
Ideology and the development of European kingdoms, Jarich Oosten
Oral tradition, dynastic legend and legitimation of ducal power in the process of the formation of the Polish state, Michal Tymowski
MESOAMERICA
Class and state in Aztec official ideology, Frederic Hicks
Hegemonic culturation and work in state formations, Donald V. Kurtz
POLYNESIA
Embodied Ideas. An essay on ritual and politics in pre-capitalist society, Thomas Bargatzky
Ideological perspectives of the development of kingship in the early states of Hawaii, Martin van Bakel
Ideology and the Formation of Early States: Data from Polynesia, Henri J.M. Claessen
Discussion and considerations, Henri J.M. Claessen and Jarich G. Oosten
Contributors
Index
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