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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 |
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| 500 | |a "First published by Fountain Publishers, PO Box 488, Kampala, Uganda"--Title page verso. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a part I. the problem and the setting -- 1. The king : focus of suspense, lever of consensus and inventor of the state -- 2. Ethnological connections between the Nile and the Kidepo -- 3. Modes of subsistence and social organisation -- 4. The passing of the glamour : the Bari -- 5. The twin kingdoms : the Lotuho -- 6. The bugbear of the administration : the Pari, Lokoya, and Lulubo -- part II. Dualism : generating consensus from the suspense of war -- 7. The dualist structure of territorial organisation -- 8. The dualist structure of age--class organisation -- part III. Centralism : the king as aggressor of the people -- 9. The king as enemy of his people -- 10. The king as unifier of the people -- 11. Tipping the balance of power from the people to the king -- 12. Boundaries in the sky : the territorial dimension of kingship -- 13. The Fingers of God : the cosmological dimension of kingship -- 14. Rain queens and rainstones : symbols of the centre -- 15. The spear and the bead : the fragility of kingship -- part IV. The scapegoat king : the people as aggressor of their king -- 16. The king as victim in suspense -- 17. The king as victim -- 18. "Catching life in the spell of death" : the ritualisation of the king's victimhood -- 19. The metabolism of violence and order : the king's stomach at work. | |
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| 520 | |a 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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