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Representing power in ancient Inner Asia : legitimacy, transmission and the sacred / edited by Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon, and Scott Pearce.
Van Pelt Library DS327.5 .R465 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies on East Asia ; v. 30.
- Studies on East Asia ; v. 30
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Power (Social sciences)--Asia, Central--History--Congresses.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Legitimacy of governments--Asia, Central--History--Congresses.
- Legitimacy of governments.
- Mongols.
- History.
- Symbolism in politics.
- Politics and government.
- Asia, Central--Politics and government--Congresses.
- Asia, Central.
- Symbolism in politics--Asia, Central--Congresses.
- Mongols--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Power (Social sciences)--Asia, Central--Terminology--Congresses.
- Central Asia.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 430 pages 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bellingham, WA : Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, [2010]
- Language Note:
- Contributions chiefly in English; 2 in French.
- Contents:
- Preface / Peter B. Golden
- Representing power in ancient Inner Asia : legitimacy, transmission and the sacred : introduction / Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon
- The acquisition, the legitimation, the confirmation and the limitations of political power in medieval Inner Asia / Denis Sinor
- Legitimizing a low-born, regicide monarch : the case of the Mamluk Sultan Baybars and the Ilkhans in the thirteenth century / Denise Aigle
- Explaining rituals and writing history : tactics against the intermediate class / Christopher P. Atwood
- Rivalry between Mongols and Tayiči'ut for authority : Kiyat-Borǰigin genealogy / Tatiana D. Skrynnikova
- To impress the soul : a technological transfer / Françoise Aubin
- From ongon to icon : legitimization, glorification and divinization of power in some examples of Mongol portraits / Isabelle Charleux
- Nurhaci's names / Nicola Di Cosmo
- Sülde : la formation d'une teminologie militaro-politique chez les nomades médiévaux d'Eurasie / Sergei V. Dmitriev
- Structure of society and power in the ancient Inner Asian nomadic empires : Xiongnu and Xianbei / Nikolai N. Kradin
- Une "dualité" du pouvoir? : empire terrestre et inspiration divine dans la légende arabe d'Alexandre et de Khidr / François de Polignac
- Pax Mongolica, Pax Mongolorum / Ts. Shagdarsürüng
- The headless state in Inner Asia : reconsidering kinship society and the discourse of tribalism / David Sneath.
- Notes:
- "This symposium was held in Paris in March 23-25, 2006. It was organized by the Centre d'études mongoles et sibériennes of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) "--P. 1.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0914584316
- 9780914584315
- OCLC:
- 694771712
- Publisher Number:
- 99954692568
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