David Sneath

Hildegard Diemberger

Riamsara Kuyakanon

This book offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world, presenting a comparative, place-based exploration of landscapes across Asia and the entities, practices and knowledges that inhabit them.

Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments

Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia

David (Director Sneath, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit University of Cambridge)

University Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit David Sneath

"Sneath argues that aristocratic power and statelike processes of administration were the true organizers of life on the steppe. Rethinking the traditional dichotomy between state and nonstate societies, Sneath conceives of a "headless state" in which a configuration of statelike power was formed by the horizontal relations among power holders and was reproduced with or without an overarching ruler or central "head." In other words, almost all of the operations of state power existed at the local level, virtually independent of central bureaucratic authority.".

Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, & Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia

The Headless State

Caroline Humphrey

University Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Fellow Caroline Humphrey

David Andrews Sneath

Explores the complex life and significant economic role of modern mobile pastoralists.

Society, State, and the Environment in Inner Asia

The End of Nomadism?

Christopher Kaplonski

This is the first work in English to bring together significant articles in Mongolian studies in one place, which will be widely welcomed by scholars and researchers in this field.A significant aspect of this work is the emphasis on source materials, including some translated from Mongolian and other languages for the first time.

The History of Mongolia (3 Vols.)

David Sneath

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