@article{Kradin_2002, title={ Nomadism, Evolution and World-Systems: Pastoral Societies in Theories of Historical Development}, volume={8}, url={http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/266}, DOI={10.5195/jwsr.2002.266}, abstractNote={This article discusses the problem of categorizing the polities and social formations of steppe pastoral nomads in Central Asia in comparative and civilizational perspective and placing complex pastoral society within a general scheme of cultural evolution. It also discusses the role that these societies played in the emergence of a larger Eurasian world-system.}, number={3}, journal={Journal of World-Systems Research}, author={Kradin, Nikolay N.}, year={2002}, month={Nov.}, pages={368–388} }