Nikolay Kradin, Dmitri Bondarenko, Thomas Barfield

Broschiertes Buch

Nomadic Pathway in Social Evolution

Second edition

Beschreibung

At present there are many theories which interpret characteristic features of nomadic pastoralists differently. Could nomads overcome the threshold of statehood independently and if yes, how such societies should be defined? Why the economic basis of nomadism has changed so slightly in millennia while the political organization is changing constantly from acephalous tribes and chiefdoms to "nomadic empires"? What do nomadic sociopolitical institutions have and do not have in common with such notions typical for sedentary agricultural societies as the state, class, property, civilization?

Autor

DMITRI M. BONDARENKO is a Vice Director of the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. ANDREY KOROTAYEV is Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. NIKOLAY KRADIN is Professor of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology, Russian Academy of Sciences in Vladivostok.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 319g
• ISBN-13: 9783844316810
• ISBN-10: 3844316817
• Artikelnr.: 33211822