Kings of Disaster : Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan PDF
by Simon Simonse
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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 Ren, 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 victimary role of the king as compared with that of enemy.
Kings of Disaster so proposes an uninvolved solution to the vexed problem of regicide.
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- Pages:556 pages
- Publisher:Fountain Publishers
- Publication Date:26/09/2017
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- ISBN:9789970259465
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:556 pages
- Publisher:Fountain Publishers
- Publication Date:26/09/2017
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- ISBN:9789970259465
