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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 4 / 2013  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS - ISABELLE CHARLEUX (EDITOR), GRÉGORY DELAPLACE (EDITOR), ROBERTE HAMAYON (EDITOR), SCOTT PEARCE (EDITOR), REPRESENTING POWER IN MODERN INNER ASIA: CONVENTIONS, ALTERNATIVES AND OPPOSITIONS, CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIES, WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 516 HIGH STREET, BELLINGHAM, WA, USA, 2010, PAPERBACK, VOLUME 31, 357 P.

Authors:  ANDREEA HELLER-IVANCENKO. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Representing power in patriarchal societies sanctifies a type of shared recognition based on a series of symbols that are indelible and omnipotent in terms of the strength or force exerted. Material instruments such as graves and objects (crowns, robes and masks), spiritual elements (gods, rituals) or words (such as the word Tör examined in a paper by Rodica Pop, which means an exogamous wedding alliance as a basic rule of society) are all symbols that reinforce the power of a group and confirm every religious wedding, funeral ceremony or inheritance of the throne. Representing Power in Modern Inner Asia: Conventions, Alternatives and Oppositions edited by Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon and Scott Pearce, contains a number of articles that deal with culture, institutions and techniques of power in the Inner Asian world. The symposium organized by the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and University of Cambridge focuses on the notion of representing power through which it is rendered visible. Visibility is the central key to any power that wants to be exerted.  
         
     
         
         
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