Nomadic pathways in social evolution / editors of the volume, Nikolay N. Kradin, Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Thomas J. Barfield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barfield, Thomas J., editor.

Kradin, N. Barfield, J., editor.

Bondarenko, D. M., editor.

T︠S︡entr t︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡ionnykh i regionalʹnykh issledovaniĭ (Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk), issuing body.

Series:

Serii͡a "T͡Sivilizat͡sionnoe izmerenie" ; Volume 5.

The “CIVILIZATIONAL DIMENSION” Series ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social evolution.

Nomads.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lac-Beauport, [Canada] : MeaBooks Incorporated, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book is written by anthropologists, historians, and archaeologists specializing in nomadic studies. All the chapters presented here discuss various aspects of one significant problem: how could small nomadic peoples at the outskirts of agricultural civilizations subjugate vast territories between the Mediterranean and the Pacific? What was the impetus that set in motion the overwhelming forces of the nomads which made tremble the royal courts of Europe and Asia? Was it an outcome of any predictable historical process or a result of a chain of random events? A wide sample of nomadic peoples is discussed, mainly on the basis of new data.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction : social evolution, alternatives, and nomadism / Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Andrey V. Korotayev and Nikolay N. Kradin

Nomads of the Eurasian steppes in historical retrospective / Anatoly Khazanov

Typology of pre-states and statehood systems of nomads / Sergey A. Vasjutin

Cultural capital, livestock raiding, and the military advantage of traditional pastoralists / William Irons

Nomadic empires : origins, rise, decline / Nikolay N. Kradin

Peculiarities of social development of the Sarmato-Alans and their image in the evidence of other cultures / Sergey A. Yatsenko

The development of hierarchical structures in the Bronze and Early Iron Age societies of the South of Eastern Europe / Allexander P. Medvedev

Penetration of nomads to the Arabian South and formation of tribal organization among the North-East Yemen agricultural population / Andrey V. Korotayev

Modes of politogenesis among the Tswana of South Africa / Alexander A. Kazankov

Power among Mongol nomads of Chinggis Khan's epoch / Tatyana D. Skrynnikova

Political culture of the Turkic-Mongolian nomads in historical and ethnological perspective / Sergey V. Dmitriev

The Chinggisids and their status in Central Asia and East Europe / Dmitri Yu. Arapov

Government of the Turkistan region native population in the Russian Empire / Dmitri V. Vassiliev

Conclusion / Thomas J. Barfield.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Moscow : Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2003, in series, Civilization dimension, volume 5.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2015).

ISBN:

9780994032577

0994032579

OCLC:

913500508