Kings of disaster: dualism, centralism, and the scapegoat king in southeastern Sudan
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Notes on the front cover and the citations -- Contents -- Models, Diagrams and Tables -- Narratives from Various Sources Serving as Case Histories -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments to the First Edition -- Introduction -- The aim of this study -- Th...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Champaign
Fountain Publishers Limited
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Simonse, Simon, 1943-, Kings of disaster : dualism, centralism, and the scapegoat king in southeastern Sudan] (2019) (Eggen, Wiel, 1942 -)
[Rezension von: Simonse, Simon, 1943-, Kings of disaster : dualism, centralism, and the scapegoat king in southeastern Sudan] (2018) (O'Byrne, Ryan Joseph) |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sudan (Südost)
/ King
/ Political anthropology
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| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Summary: | Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Notes on the front cover and the citations -- Contents -- Models, Diagrams and Tables -- Narratives from Various Sources Serving as Case Histories -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments to the First Edition -- Introduction -- The aim of this study -- The plan of the book -- A note on terminology: kings, chiefs, masters, rainmakers -- Technical notes -- PART I - The Problem and the Setting -- 1. The King: Focus of Suspense, Lever of Consensus and Inventor of the State -- Girard's scapegoat mechanism -- The enemy scenario -- Dualism as the institutional embedding of the enemy scenario -- Centralism as the institutional embedding of the scapegoat scenario -- Frazer's scapegoat king -- Unequal exchange -- The two sources of the king's power -- Early kingship and the genesis of the state -- The state as an evolving cybernetic system -- From regicidal kingdom to sacrificial state -- The state as crystallisation of the mimesis of the antagonist -- 2. Ethnological Connections Between the Nile and the Kidepo -- The geographical setting -- Delimitation of the 'ethnological field of study -- The Eastern Nilotic connection -- The Madi connection -- The Lwoo connection -- The iron connection -- Melting‑pot -- 3. Modes of Subsistence and Social Organisation -- Sorghum, 'life-giver' -- Work‑parties and the Big Man -- Cattle and the fly -- Hunting and egalitarianism -- The village: size, layout and defence works -- The monyomiji -- Monyomiji and sections -- Inter-clan relations -- The Rainmaker/king -- 4. The Passing of the Glamour: The Bari -- The beautiful, the brave, and the earthly -- The Bari: The collapse of the hegemony of the Bilinyan Bekat -- The cargo chiefs (1859-1885) -- The Steamer Cult -- The era of the warlords (1885-1898) -- The government chiefs -- Conclusion -- 5. The Twin Kingdoms: The Lotuho. |
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| ISBN: | 9970259466 |