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This course is aimed to a discussion of the kinship-based
structure of tribal organization and
its relation to supra-tribal and non-tribal forms of social
organization in Central Asia and the Middle East. We will deal with
the concept of the
segmentary lineage system and its critics; tribal structure as
an organizational framework functioning simultaneously at
various levels like social, political and juridical;
the centrifugal and centralizing tendencies in tribalism and
its relation to the central state structures, both in tribally
formed states and non-tribal central states. |