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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.