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Title:

Representing power in ancient Inner Asia : legitimacy, transmission and the sacred / edited by Isabelle Charleux ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Center for East Asian StudiesWestern Washington University,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xvi, 430 p. [18] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Power (Social sciences)--Asia, Central--History--Congresses.
Legitimacy of governments--Asia, Central--History--Congresses.
Asia, Central--Politics and government--Congresses.
Symbolism in politics--Asia, Central--Congresses.
Mongols--History--To 1500--Congresses.
Power (Social sciences)--Asia, Central--Terminology--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Charleux, Isabelle.
Centre d'études mongoles et sibériennes (Paris, France)

Notes:

"This symposium was held in Paris in March 23-25, 2006. It was organized by the Centre d'études mongoles et sibériennes of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) "--P. 1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface / Peter B. Golden -- Representing power in ancient Inner Asia : legitimacy, transmission and the sacred : introduction / Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon -- The acquisition, the legitimation, the confirmation and the limitations of political power in medieval Inner Asia / Denis Sinor -- Legitimizing a low-born, regicide monarch : the case of the Mamluk Sultan Baybars and the Ilkhans in the thirteenth century / Denise Aigle -- Explaining rituals and writing history : tactics against the intermediate class / Christopher P. Atwood -- Rivalry between Mongols and Tayiči'ut for authority : Kiyat-Borǰigin genealogy / Tatiana D. Skrynnikova -- To impress the soul : a technological transfer / Françoise Aubin -- From ongon to icon : legitimization, glorification and divinization of power in some examples of Mongol portraits / Isabelle Charleux -- Nurhaci's names / Nicola Di Cosmo -- Sülde : la formation d'une teminologie militaro-politique chez les nomades médiévaux d'Eurasie / Sergei V. Dmitriev -- Structure of society and power in the ancient Inner Asian nomadic empires : Xiongnu and Xianbei / Nikolai N. Kradin -- Une "dualité" du pouvoir? : empire terrestre et inspiration divine dans la légende arabe d'Alexandre et de Khidr / François de Polignac -- Pax Mongolica, Pax Mongolorum / Ts. Shagdarsürüng -- The headless state in Inner Asia : reconsidering kinship society and the discourse of tribalism / David Sneath.

Series:

Studies on East Asia ; v. 30

ISBN:

0914584316
9780914584315

OCLC:

(OCoLC)694771712

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)