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- Book Title
- Kings of Disaster : Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan
- Publication Name
- Kings of Disaster
- Title
- Kings of Disaster
- Subtitle
- Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 9970258974
- EAN
- 9789970258970
- ISBN
- 9789970258970
- Publisher
- Fountain Publishers The Limited
- Genre
- Design, Social Science
- Topic
- Interior Decorating, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Release Date
- 26/09/2017
- Release Year
- 2017
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Item Width
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 30.9 Oz
- Type
- Political Science & Ideology
- Publication Year
- 2017
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This is the long awaited, revised and illustrated edition of Kings of Disaster, the study of the Rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan that is in many ways 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 victim role of the king as compared with that of enemy. Kings of Disaster thus proposes an uninvolved solution to the vexed problem of regicide.
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Publisher
Fountain Publishers The Limited
ISBN-10
9970258974
ISBN-13
9789970258970
eBay Product ID (ePID)
248432165
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kings of Disaster : Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Interior Decorating, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Design, Social Science
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
30.9 Oz
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'Simon Simonse's Kings of Disaster is a monumental achievement. I believe it is the most important work on the long-mooted topic of divine kingship yet written, a book that brings the questions debated since the time of Sir James Frazer and Evans-Pritchard to a final, definitive resolution: everything from "did Africans really kill their sacred kings?" to "what is the real nature of the principle of sovereignty that still lies behind the bureaucratic forms of the modern nation-state?" The answers are never quite what we expected. If there is such a thing as progress in anthropology, and not just shifting fashion, then this book must stand as the starting-point for any future discussion on these topics.'- David Graeber, London School of Economics, 'It is impossible to overstate the achievement of this book. With an exemplary combination of empirical rigour and theoretical daring, Kings of Disaster transforms the landscape of African studies while forcing us to think in new ways about the origins of political power and the state.'- Mark Anspach, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris 'The ethnographic richness of this volume is astonishing: the author has ransacked archives, combed historical accounts, and carried out superb fieldworkhimself... From this viewpoint, the volume offers a more unified vision of the region and of the problems raised by these kingdoms than the isolated monographs about these peoples written in the wake of Evans-Pritchard.'- Jean-Claude Muller, Universite de Montreal, in Anthropologie et Societes
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