Kings of Disaster: Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan - Couverture souple

Livre 40 sur 54: Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture

Simonse, Simon

 
9789970258970: Kings of Disaster: Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan
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ISBN 10 : 9970258974 ISBN 13 : 9789970258970
Editeur : Fountain Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

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 René 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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À propos de l?auteur

Simon Simonse (1943) studied in Leiden and Paris. Kings of Disaster was his doctoral thesis which he defended at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1990. He taught anthropology in D.R. Congo, Uganda, the Netherlands, South Sudan and Indonesia. Since 1993 he has been working as a conflict transformation expert in the Horn and the Great Lakes of Africa.

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Éditeur
Fountain Publishers
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9970258974
ISBN 13 
9789970258970
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
556
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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