The Study of the State

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Preface List of contributors 1. ‘Sacred kingship’ and formation of the state 2. Traditional Rwanda: deconsecrating a sacred kingdom 3. Kinship and politics. The formation of the state among the pastoralists of the Sahara and the Sahel 4. Specific features of the African early state 5. Evolution, fission, and the early state 6. The structure of the Mamprusi kingdom and the cult of naam 7. Social function and political power: a case study of state formation in irrigation society 8. The early state among the Eurasian nomads 9. The legitimation of early inchoate states 10. Warfare and the origin of the state: another formulation 11. West African kingdoms and the early state: a review of some recent analyses 12. ‘Divine kingship’ in chiefdoms and states. A single ideological model 13. The Kushāṇa state: a preliminary study 14. The pre-colonial Indian state in history and epistemology. A reconstruction of societal formation in the Western Deccan from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century 15. Ways of state formation in Africa: a demonstration of typical possibilities 16. Kalinga and Andhra: the process of secondary state formation in early India 17. Some additional thoughts on the concept of the early state 18. From ‘empire’ to state: the emergence of the kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara: c. 1350-1890 19. Terrestrial deities and celestial bureaucrats: transfor¬mation of the state and local communities in the Asiatic mode of production in Japan 20. The state as a problem of jurisprudence 21. The state as empire 22. The army and the formation of the states of West Africa in the nineteenth century: the cases of Kenedugu and Samori state 23. Marx and Weber on the primary state 24. The study of the Southeast Asian state 25. Ubi sumus? The Study of the State conference in retrospect Biographical notes Index of names Index of subjects