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Representing power in ancient Inner Asia : legitimacy, transmission and the sacred

Title
Representing power in ancient Inner Asia : legitimacy, transmission and the sacred / edited by Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon, and Scott Pearce.
Publication
Bellingham, WA : Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Charleux, Isabelle
  • Delaplace, Grégory
  • Hamayon, Roberte
  • Pearce, Scott
  • Centre d'études mongoles et sibériennes (Paris, France)
Description
xvi, 430 p. [18] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
Series Statement
Studies on East Asia ; v. 30
Uniform Title
Studies on East Asia ; v. 30.
Subjects
Note
  • "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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Contributions chiefly in English; 2 in French.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780914584315
  • 0914584316
OCLC
  • ocn694771712
  • 694771712
  • SCSB-5619954
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries