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| | | AUTHOR’S PREFACE |
| Part One |
| | Theoretical Foundation |
| | | 1. Nomadism, Evolution, and World-Systems: Pastoral Societies in Theories of Historical Development |
| | | 2. Nomadic Empires in Evolutionary Perspective |
| | | 3. Ernst Gellner and Debates on the Nomadic Feudalism |
| | | 4. Cultural Complexity of Pastoral Nomads |
| Part Two |
| | Archaeological Retrospective |
| | | 5. The Social Stratification of the Xiongnu
Nomadic Empire in Baikal Area |
| | | 6. Settled Population in the Xiongnu Empire: Ivolga Fortress Settlement Example |
| | | 7. New Approaches and Challenges for the Xiongnu Studies |
| | | 8. North and South in the Dynamics of Inner Asia: The Movement Of People, Empires and Technologies |
| Part Three |
| | Historical Dynamics |
| | | 9. Structure of Society and Power in the Ancient Inner Asian Nomadic Empires: Xiongnu and Xianbei |
| | | 10. | Liao Dynasty as a Nomadic Empire |
| | | 11. | The Mongols Empire and Debates of the Nomadic States Origins |
| | | 12Chinggis Khan, World System Analysis and Preindustrial Globalization |
| Part Four |
| | ANTHROPOLOGY OF TRANSITION |
| | | 13Transformation of Peasant Pastoralism Among the Aginsky Buryats, end of XX – Beginning of XXI Centuries |
| | | 14The Transition of Tuvinian Pastoralism in Contemporary Perspective |
| | | 15Between Khans and Presidents. Anthropology of Politics in Post-Soviet Central Asia |
| | | 16Post-Soviet Power in Anthropological Perspective229 |
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