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Kings of Disaster : Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan /
The long-awaited, revised, and illustrated edition of Simon Simonse's study of the Rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan marks a breakthrough in anthropological thinking on African political systems. Taking his inspiration from Rene Girard's theory of consensual scapegoating, the author shows th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Edición: | Revised, illustrated edition. |
| Colección: | Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The long-awaited, revised, and illustrated edition of Simon Simonse's study of the Rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan marks a breakthrough in anthropological thinking on African political systems. Taking his inspiration from Rene Girard's theory of consensual scapegoating, the author shows that the longstanding distinction of states and stateless societies as two fundamentally different political types does not hold. Centralized and segmentary systems only differ in the relative emphasis put on the victimary role of the king as compared with that of enemy. Kings of Disaster proposes an elegant and powerful solution to the vexed problem of regicide. |
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| Notas: | "Published in 1992, as volume 5 in the series Studies in Human Society, by E.J Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands"--Title page verso. "First published by Fountain Publishers, PO Box 488, Kampala, Uganda"--Title page verso. Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (556 pages): illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781609175672 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |