... the boundaries of a State can have debilitating effects on regional or international peace. The chapter then assesses whether non-State actors can assume a corresponding dual role, looking into the role of multinational enterprises, de facto regimes, and clans through the lens of international human rights...

...This chapter analyzes how three kinship principles (clan hospitality, clan exogamy, and ethnic endogamy) initially became hegemonic among diasporic Hmong as a pervasive cultural system that transcends national boundaries. Since these rules were inculcated through parental education and are seen...

... law to restrict explicitly marriage choices, ʻAlid women came overwhelmingly to marry ʻAlid men. Maternal lineage also mattered, much more than is usually accounted for. Cognate relations formed the basis of social and political alliances and could determine and explain the behaviour of a clan...

... been the equivalent of the clans around the Square Ground or the family members in the household. The archaeological data is not inconsistent with the notion that burial groupings around Mound C were corporate kin groups. Archaeological phases Angel Archaeological sites 1GR2 Binford Saxe Chiefdoms...

... then talks about his research on how kinship and leadership were related in the traditional system, noting that some Kragur people started to use the title of chief for those who qualified as ramat wolap. He also considers the importance of clans to Kragur people and the secret details...

... and culture and explained how the characteristic Micronesian matrilineal clans and lineages perform in a great variety of adaptive ways. The discussion then turns to how the appearance European explorers in Micronesia was no radical departure from what had happened in the past. It identifies two factors...

... is believed to stem from this action and was compounded by the development of a new town on the adjacent farmland. A recent change of use for the police station to a clan museum has lifted the spirits of the villagers but the cultural landscape has been irreversibly depleted by inappropriate land use zoning...

... undisturbed and strike gold. This may explain why, over the last thirty years, many camorristi have made it their second home. However, there is another reason: its place in the European drugs market. From the existing evidence, it could be suggested that of the Camorra clans with links...

...Patrimonialism permeated Russian and Soviet cultures in a profound way. Patrimonialism won over bureaucracy, as the last chapter showed. This chapter shows that it came with a price: conflicts and political clans. Patrimonialism permeated the entire Bolshevik party. On all levels, party members...

... Communist Party membership Stalin I cult of Weber M Yeltsin B Bourdieu P Constitution post Soviet Duma and Nicholas II Elections Feudalism Nomenklatura Urban M Berliner J Clan as Political network Fainsod M Ledeneva A Mestnichestvo Rigby T Shlapentokh V Hosking G Medvedev D patron client...

...This chapter traces the history of Scotland from the Reformation to Culloden. It discusses Scotland in the early modern period; economy and society in the Highlands, focusing on the clans; and early Scots Gaelic literature focusing on praise-poems and ballads. Mary Stuart Charles Edward Stuart...

... was by no means homogeneous in the nineteenth century. It was dotted with villages of different size and composition: some, particularly in the south-east, consisted of single lineages or “clans.” Religion entered into the organization of such communities everywhere to some extent. The nineteenth century...

... public and the dominant priestly clans, and how this process was recounted in the Samuel narratives. It also analyses the redactional layer of the narrative material and its points of contact with anthropological, linguistic, theological, and historical traces of earlier experience. Finally, it discusses...

...Ovid, in his Fasti provides important treatments of two Roman clans, the Fabii and the Claudii. Ovid records memorable events associated with both, in periods that were vital to the history of the Republic: the struggle against the Etruscans, the Gallic sack of Rome, the conflict...

... and social structure of medieval Rajasthan. Apart from kinship ties, the inter-clan relationships have been studied as well as the process State formation which developed through distinct stages. Study of these developments aids in understanding the marriage network among the clans. Whereas during the early...

..., but generally this period seems to have been one of relative peace and prosperity on the larger island, particularly in Itsandra, where the ruling clan was the Hinya Fwambaya. ⁸⁰ Oral tradition tells of a Sultan Mahame Said, renowned as an astrologer, who may have reigned in the sultanate for fifty...

... religion, food, language, history, festivals, family, strange happenings and clan warfare. The book documents much that can no longer be found. But it also provides an understanding of a world which has not yet entirely disappeared, and which still forms the background of life in modern urban Hong Kong...

...Governing the Highlands was very different from governing the rest of Scotland. The political elites of the Highlands barely recognised state authority, and had few connections to regular institutions of government. The internal government of the Highlands was in the hands of clan chiefs who did...

... the key issues of power-sharing between the centre and the regions, clan integration, and financing. The lesson to learn is that external actors must incentivize local political elites to take those difficult decisions as soon as possible because without such a foundation SSR can make little headway...

... personalism repression society Stalin Joseph totalitarianism constitution Gorbachev Mikhail oligarchs presidentialism Putin Vladimir Putinism Stanovaya Tatyana formality HHale Henry informality institutions patronalism political parties clans Duma FFederal Assembly Federation Council...