Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3526763 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert G Landen |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 440 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Tribes and state formation in the Middle East, Joseph Kostiner, 1990 |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/205353 |
| OpenAlex | W2088998446 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Tribes and State Formation is the first effort to bring together the disciplines of history, anthropology, and political science around a major topic that none of these alone is adequately equipped to address. How and why did certain tribal societies metamorphose over time into states? Scholars concerned with general questions of theory and methodology and the interaction of anthropology and history, as well as political scientists and sociologists concerned with concepts of the state in the Middle East and other developing regions, will be well served by this innovative work. The articles by an array of distinguished scholars cover a wide range of topics: the relationship of ideology to tribal and state power, comparisons between different regional patterns of tribe-state interaction, historical case studies from North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Iran extending to the contemporary period; theoretical and methodological inquiries, and systematic reviews of the literature on tribes and states. The articles argue against a unilinear approach to the study of tribes and state formation by emphasizing that states often existed alongside tribes and even created tribes for their own purposes. Some case studies emphasize the incompatibility of states and tribalism, while others illustrate the many areas in which tribes actually enhanced rather than impeded state formation
Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Middle East · Political science · State (computer science) · Computer Science · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
On the relationship between interindividual cultural transmission and population-level cultural diversity
Tribal Alliances
Concept of Leadership in the Ancient History and Its Effects on the Middle East
A Response to Critics
Tribes in Libya
Minority groups in Ottoman Turkey before 1856
The Kurds and Kurdistan
The ‘Tribal Politics’ of Field Research
Violence and Order
Power, knowledge, and being
Durable and non‐durable dynasties
Political Islam in the Mediterranean
Searching Where the Light Shines
Alternative Complexities
The perfect counterinsurgent
Tribal mobilisation during the Syrian civil war
On "tribes" and bribes
Hakan Özoğlu. Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State
Looking beyond the Tribe
A tribe as an economic actor
The New Rise of Tribalism in Saudi Arabia
The Bedouin in History or Bedouin History
Segmentation within the State
Legal Complexity on the Tibetan Plateau
Beyond Mimicry
The warlord as arbitrageur
Investigating cultural evolution through biological phylogenetic analyses of Turkmen textiles
Being bad during Ramadan
State-Community Relations in Yemen
Kinship and the embodiment of history
Geopolitics, Geography, and 'Terrorism' in the Middle East
Tribalism’ and identity in contemporary circumstances
Reflections on the Arabian Seas in the Eighteenth Century
Establishing the connection between demographic and economic factors, and gender status in the Middle East
Pastoral predicaments
The Logic of Clan Politics
Death and Celebration among Muslim Women
Reflections on Arab nationalism
Toynbee and Ibn Khaldun
In search of ‘historical correctness’
Rejoinders - A Response by David Sneath to Peter Golden's Review of the Headless State
US Responses to Major Developments in the Arab-Islamic World
Decentralized local governance in fragile states
The Weight of the Past
Dialogues in Arab Politics
The Waning of Soqotra's Pastoral Community
Factions and Vengeance in Renaissance Italy. A Review Article
Anthropological Assumptions and the Afghan War
Clan Governance and State Stability
Bibliography of Periodical Literature
The Institutions Curse
Ethnicity, State Formation, and Conscription in Postcolonial Iraq
Tribalism in the Middle East
Houses built on sand
Democracy, Clan Politics and Weak Governance
State‐tribe relations
Sovereignty, nationalism, and regional order in the Arab states system
Restoring the Family to Civil Society
Filial nationalism among Chinese teenagers with global identities
Neo-Tribalism in Iraq
State-like and state dislike in the anthropological margins★
Bibliography of Periodical Literature
Expecting the Unexpected
Electoral Protest and Democracy in the Developing World
Family Power
Unpacking 'Stacking
The Limits of the State
Tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan
Problems of Social Science Research in Palestine
Nations without Nationalism
Some Remarks on Patronage in Syria-Palestine During the Late Bronze Age
Transcending Traditionalism
| Highly cited | No |
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