On kings /
In anthropology, as much as in the current popular imagination, kings remain figures of fascination and intrigue. As the cliché goes, kings continue to die spectacular deaths only to remain subjects of vitality and long life. This collection of essays by a teacher and his student two of the world�...
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HAU Books,
2017
Chicago, Illinois, USA : HAU Books/University of Chicago Press, 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The original political society
- Chapter 2. The divine kingship of the Shilluk: On violence, utopia, and the human condition
- Chapter 3. The atemporal dimensions of history: In the old Kongo kingdom, for example
- Chapter 4. The stranger-kingship of the Mexica
- Chapter 5. The people as nursemaids of the king: Notes on monarchs as children, women's uprisings, and the return of the ancestral dead in central Madagascar
- Chapter 6. The cultural politics of core-periphery relations
- Chapter 7. Notes on the politics of divine kingship: Or, elements for an archaeology of sovereignty
- Bibliography
- Index
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The original political society
- Chapter 2. The divine kingship of the Shilluk: On violence, utopia, and the human condition
- Chapter 3. The temporal dimensions of history: In the old Kongo kingdom, for example
- Chapter 4. The stranger-kingship of the Mexica
- Chapter 5. The people as nursemaids of the king: Notes on monarchs as children, women's uprisings, and the return of the ancestral dead in central Madagascar
- Chapter 6. The cultural politics of core-periphery relations
- Chapter 7. Notes on the politics of divine kingship: Or, elements for an archaeology of sovereignty
- Bibliography
- Index