Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 257 p)
Edition:
English ed
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781474215664
Content:
Introduction : the character of kingship / Declan Quigley -- Forms of sacralized power in Africa / Luc de Heusch -- Sacred king, sacrificial victim, surrogate victim or Frazer, Hocart, Girard / Lucien Scubla -- A reply to Lucien Scubla / Luc de Heusch -- Tragedy, ritual and power in Nilotic regicide : the regicidal dramas of the eastern Nilotes of Sudan in comparative perspective / Simon Simonse -- The transgressive nature of kingship in caste organization : monstrous royal doubles in Nepal / Marie Lecomte-Tilouine -- Kingship and untouchability / Declan Quigley -- Kingship and caste in Africa : history, diffusion and evolution / Tal Tamari -- King house : the mobile polity in northern Ghana / Susan Drucker-Brown -- Kings and tribes in east India : the internal political dimension / Burkhard Schnepel -- Japanese monarchy in historical and comparative perspective / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney -- Chiefs and kings in Polynesia / Henri J. M. Claessen.
Note:
"Developed from discussions held during a conference on kingship in St. Andrews, Scotland in January 2002"--Acknowledgements
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845202903
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847880161
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845202910
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Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781474215664
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