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Language: en
Pages: 688
Pages: 688
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-04-01 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attem
Language: en
Pages: 688
Pages: 688
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-04-01 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attem
Language: en
Pages: 372
Pages: 372
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-07-24 - Publisher: Duke University Press
Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in
Language: en
Pages: 330
Pages: 330
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-06 - Publisher: BRILL
Culture, Power, and Authoritarianism in the Indonesian State is a critical history of cultural policy in one of the world’s most diverse nations across the tu
Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press
When Naser al-Din Shah, who ruled Iran from 1848 to 1896, claimed the title Shadow of God on Earth, his authority rested on premodern conceptions of sacred king