Kings of Disaster Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Champaign :
Fountain Publishers Limited,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Notes on the front cover and the citations
- Contents
- Models, Diagrams and Tables
- Narratives from Various Sources Serving as Case Histories
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments to the First Edition
- Introduction
- The aim of this study
- The plan of the book
- A note on terminology: kings, chiefs, masters, rainmakers
- Technical notes
- PART I
- The Problem and the Setting
- 1. The King: Focus of Suspense, Lever of Consensus and Inventor of the State
- Girard's scapegoat mechanism
- The enemy scenario
- Dualism as the institutional embedding of the enemy scenario
- Centralism as the institutional embedding of the scapegoat scenario
- Frazer's scapegoat king
- Unequal exchange
- The two sources of the king's power
- Early kingship and the genesis of the state
- The state as an evolving cybernetic system
- From regicidal kingdom to sacrificial state
- The state as crystallisation of the mimesis of the antagonist
- 2. Ethnological Connections Between the Nile and the Kidepo
- The geographical setting
- Delimitation of the 'ethnological field of study
- The Eastern Nilotic connection
- The Madi connection
- The Lwoo connection
- The iron connection
- Melting-pot
- 3. Modes of Subsistence and Social Organisation
- Sorghum, 'life-giver'
- Work-parties and the Big Man
- Cattle and the fly
- Hunting and egalitarianism
- The village: size, layout and defence works
- The monyomiji
- Monyomiji and sections
- Inter-clan relations
- The Rainmaker/king
- 4. The Passing of the Glamour: The Bari
- The beautiful, the brave, and the earthly
- The Bari: The collapse of the hegemony of the Bilinyan Bekat
- The cargo chiefs (1859-1885)
- The Steamer Cult
- The era of the warlords (1885-1898)
- The government chiefs
- Conclusion
- 5. The Twin Kingdoms: The Lotuho
- The traders (1860-1875)
- The Lotuho under Turco-Egyptian rule (1875-1884)
- The 'Nacar' (1888 -1897)
- The Uganda Protectorate (1898 -1914)
- The Tirangore kingdom during the Condominium (1914-1954)
- The Loronyo kingdom during the Condominium (1914-1954)
- Conclusion
- 6. The Bugbear of the Administration: The Pari, Lokoya, and Lulubo
- The first interactions between the Pari and the Sudan government
- First government interactions with the Lulubo and Lokoya
- The Lokoya patrols (1910-1920)
- Rainmakers and government chiefs
- Conclusion
- PART II
- Dualism: Generating Consensus from the Suspense of War
- 7. The Dualist Structure of Territorial Organisation
- Violence and social distance
- Warfare
- Hero and victim in warfare
- The dualist structure of sectional organisation
- The tightrope of non-violent competition
- The victimary directionality of warfare between the Kidepo and the Nile
- Conclusion
- 8. The Dualist Structure of Age-class Organisation
- The monyomiji, owners of the community