Reconceptualizing Clans: Kinship Networks and Statehood in Kazakhstan
Author:
- Edward SchatzESEdward Schatz
- 1 June 2005
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Nationalities Papers
- Vol. 33 (2) , 231-254
Abstract
What role, if any, does kinship play in modern political life? Recent work in comparative politics has focused on a variety of informal relationships. It is striking that kinship has not received similar, sustained attention. The broad assumption of most theoretically-driven work is that kinship is the domain of the anthropologist; to the extent that political scientists consider kinship, they do so as something for modern institutions to overcome, as something in fundamental opposition to the state apparatus.Keywords
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