Introduction

Isabelle Charleux (1) , Grégory Delaplace (1) , Roberte N. Hamayon (1)

1 GSRL - Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités

This is the “Introduction” of the two volumes Representing Power in Ancient Inner Asia: Legitimacy, Transmission and the Sacred, and Representing Power in Modern Inner Asia: Conventions, Alternatives and Oppositions. It discusses the types and techniques of power representation in Inner Asian societies, in other words, the various ways power is ‘represented’ in these societies, whether nomadic or sedentary, state-controlled or not, centralized or headless.

Mots clés: power; Inner Asia; Mongolia; China; kingship; state emblems; representation

Domaines: Art et histoire de l'art; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Histoire; Religions

Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte N. Hamayon. Introduction. Charleux, Isabelle, Roberte Hamayon & Grégory Delaplace. Representing Power in Ancient Inner Asia : Legitimacy, transmission and the sacred, Western Washington University, pp.1-35, 2010. ⟨halshs-00702132⟩