Godina izdanja: 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9861325-0-6
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Izdavač: Hau Books, Chicago
Povez: broširan
Broj strana: XV + 536
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In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists—David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins—explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. As they show, kings are symbols for more than just sovereignty: indeed, the study of kingship offers a unique window into fundamental dilemmas concerning the very nature of power, meaning, and the human condition.

Reflecting on issues such as temporality, alterity, and utopia—not to mention the divine, the strange, the numinous, and the bestial—Graeber and Sahlins explore the role of kings as they have existed around the world, from the BaKongo to the Aztec to the Shilluk and beyond. Richly delivered with the wit and sharp analysis characteristic of Graeber and Sahlins, this book opens up new avenues for the anthropological study of this fascinating and ubiquitous political figure.

C O N T E N T S

Chapter One: The original political society
Marshall Sahlins

Chapter Two: The divine kingship of the Shilluk: On violence, utopia, and the human condition
David Graeber

Chapter Three: The atemporal dimensions of history: In the old Kongo kingdom, for example
Marshall Sahlins

Chapter Four: The stranger-kingship of the Mexica
Marshall Sahlins

Chapter Five: 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
David Graeber

Chapter Six: The cultural politics of core–periphery relations
Marshall Sahlins

Chapter Seven: Notes on the politics of divine kingship: Or, elements for an archaeology of sovereignty
David Graeber

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