The Study of the State

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