... of The Headless State , kindly describes it as thought-provoking and rich, but attacks its central argument—that dominant notions of kinship society led historians of pastoral nomadic societies to assume they were composed of segmentary clans and tribes defined by descent from common ancestors...

...Peter B. Golden The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepesentations of Nomadic Inner Asia . By David Sneath . New York : Columbia University Press , 2007 . xi , 273 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009...

...Francis Allard Nomadic Art of the East Eurasian Steppes . By Emma C. Bunker with James C. Watt and Zhixin Sun . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2002 . 248 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 410 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D...

...Morris Rossabi The Nomadic Leviathan: A Critique of the Sinocentric Paradigm . By Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene . Leiden, Netherlands : Brill , 2023 . xvi, 555 pp. ISBN: 978004543881 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Leviathan, indeed. This book is over five hundred pages...

...Paula L. W. Sabloff Precious Steppe: Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralists in Pursuit of the Market . By Ole Bruun . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2006 . x , 249 pp. $64.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 Ole...

...George Ginsburgs Ot kochevogo obraza zhizni k osedlosti (na opyte MNR). [From a nomadic mode of life to a sedentary one, the experience of the Mongolian People's Republic] . By V. V. Graivoronskii . Moscow : Nauka , 1979 . 178 pp. Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index of Names. 1 ruble 90...

...Ruth W. Dunnell The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China . By Thomas J. Barfield . Cambridge, Mass., and Oxford, England : Basil Blackwell Inc. , 1989 . xiii , 325 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 126 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Kenneth M. Swope Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History . By Nicola Di Cosmo . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2002 . ix, 369 pp. $70.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1234 THE JOURNAL...

...Orhon Myadar Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders: Multispecies and Spatial Ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia . By Charlotte Marchina . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2021 . xx, 178 pp. ISBN: 9789463721424 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... Abstract One of the world's four most celebrated natural history museums, Field Museum in Chicago, has only recently completed and opened to the public a new permanent exhibition called “Tibet, High Land of Monk and Nomad.” Founded in 1893, Field Museum grew from a nest egg of materials from...

...Jeff Sahadeo Nomadism and Colonialism: A Hundred Years of Baluchistan, 1872–1972 . By Fred Scholz . Translated by Hugh Van Skyhawk . Karachi : Oxford University Press , 2002 . xviii, 328 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1298...

...Robert A. Rupen Nomads and Commissars: Mongolia Revisited . By Owen Lattimore . New York : Oxford University Press , 1962 . 238 . Photographs, End-papers map. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 111 the last decade of Manchu rule in China...

...Peter A. Michalove Books of the Mongolian Nomads: More than Eight Centuries of Writing Mongolian . By György Kara . Bloomington : Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University , 2005 . 371 pp. $58.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B...

...Robert L. Canfield Afghan Nomads: Caravans, Conflicts and Trade in Afghanistan and British India 1800–1980 . By Klaus Ferdinand . Copenhagen : Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers , 2006 . 1 pp. DKK 330.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...

...Paul D. Buell Imperial Nomads: A History of Central Asia, 500–1500 . By Luc Kwanten . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1979 . xv, 352 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Appendixes, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. $18. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982...

... of them useless, are listed after i960. ELIZABETH LYONS Michigan State University The Sea Nomads: A Study Based on the Literature of the Maritime Boat People of Southeast Asia. BY DAVID E. SOPHER. Memoirs of the National Museum, No. 5, 1965. Singapore: Lim Bian Han, Government Printer, 1965. x. 422 pp...

... as sufficient to account for otherwise complex social and political phenomena. In the course of time, with the historical development of powerful nomadic states confronting China militarily and politically, the attributes of “greedy” and “ravenous” stuck essentially to those people who “moved in search of grass...

...Jérôme Rousseau Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest: The Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Settling Down . By Bernard Sellato . Translated by Stephanie Morgan . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1994 . xxiii, 280 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...James A. Millward China's Last Nomads: The History and Culture of China's Kazaks . By Linda Benson and Ingvar Svanberg . Armonk, N.Y. and London England : M. E. Sharpe , 1998 . xiv, 251 pp. $63.95 (cloth); $24.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999...

...Thomas J. Barfield Nomads of South Siberia: The Pastoral Economies of Tuva . By Sevyan Vainshtein . Edited by Caroline Humphrey . Translated by Michael Colenso. New York : Cambridge University Press , 1981 . 248 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $39.50 (cloth). Copyright ©...