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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Electronic books. |
Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- General Maps -- Introduction -- 1 Theory: Approaches to State and Society -- Concepts and hypothesis -- The state -- Modern state-building: state-centred perspectives -- 'State-in-society' approaches -- 'Clan politics' theories -- Descent and kinship in anthropological theory -- Trust networks, the 'economy of favours' and neopatrimonialism -- 2 Political Order and Social Integration prior to, during and after the Caucasian War |
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Political order and social institutions prior to the Caucasian War (pre-1817) -- Debates on Nakh feudalism and teip structures -- Proto-national political institutions and law: Mekhk-Khel , tukhum and adat -- Social integration and social change during the Caucasian War -- The stirrings of war -- Shamil's imamate -- Political structures and social institutions during and after the Caucasus War -- The Russian state and Chechen and Ingush social institutions after the Caucasian War -- In the Imperial state: social change after the Caucasian War |
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New institutions and laws. New sectors of the economy -- 3 State-Building, Informal Institutions and Social Integration under the Soviet Union (1921-1991) -- Social change and the early Bolshevik state (1922-1940) -- Deportation, social change and social institutions (1944-1957) -- Social change after exile (1957-1991) -- Collective memory as a political resource -- 4 Social Integration in Ingushetia and Chechnya -- Fieldwork methodology and challenges -- Descent groups in Ingushetia and Chechnya -- Is the teip a social organization? Mechanisms of maintaining teip unity -- Common residence |
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Common ownership of land/property -- Common defence -- Rule of the Elders -- Religious rituals (funerals, weddings, mold ) -- Kinship -- Categories of kinship and relations between them -- Kinship relations and kin solidarity -- Co-habitation: kinship enclaves -- Kinship and blood feud -- Regionalism -- Religious institutions -- Tariqas and virds -- Murid groups and local religious authorities -- Fundamentalists -- Mechanisms of recruitment to office -- Kinship and jobs -- Role of neighbours/ zemlyaks , religious, professional and ideological networks |
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5 State-Building Project in Chechnya under Dzhokhar Dudaev (1991-1994) -- State-building policies (1991-1994) -- The economy -- Law enforcement, justice and the military -- Political crisis: the Parliament vs. the President -- State-building and informal social institutions -- Teips -- Neo-traditionalism: the Mekhk-Khel and Elders in politics -- Kinship -- Religion -- Political elite formation: ideology, merit and loyalty -- The mountains vs. lowland divide? -- Regionalism -- Slipping towards war -- 6 State-Building in Chechnya under Aslan Maskhadov (1997-1999) -- Elections and the early elite |
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Challengers to the Maskhadov regime |
ISBN |
9781350271715 |
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1350271713 |
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