Tribe and State in Asia Through Twenty-Five Centuries - Couverture souple

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Guha, Sumit

 
9780924304958: Tribe and State in Asia Through Twenty-Five Centuries
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0924304952 ISBN 13 : 9780924304958
Editeur : Association for Asian Studies, 2021

Synopsis

'Tribe' is one of the oldest words in Western languages. It has now globalized. Discourses in and on Asia frequently employ the label 'tribe' as a loan-word or in an Asian-language equivalent. This may be positive, used to market crafts and fabrics; it may be neutral, used in legal and administrative practice and in conflict zones, or it may be a pragmatic descriptor of a social organization and military capacity. The name has persisted through fifty years of academic denunciation of its emptiness. This book analyzes how the word 'tribe' has morphed and spread through the centuries. It goes behind the label to bring out the social, military and environmental settings that gave it its various meanings. Sumit Guha thus offers non-specialist readers an overview of 17 million sq. miles through two thousand years to the present.

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À propos de l'auteur

SUMIT GUHA is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present and Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991.

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Éditeur
Association for Asian Studies
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0924304952
ISBN 13 
9780924304958
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
156
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Personne responsable
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