Kings of Disaster
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Kings of Disaster

Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan

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Kings of Disaster

Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan

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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 Girards 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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Publisher
Fountain Publishers
Year
2017
ISBN
9789970259465
Topic
Sozialwissenschaften
Subtopic
Kultur- & Sozialanthropologie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Notes on the front cover and the citations
  6. Contents
  7. Models, Diagrams and Tables
  8. Narratives from Various Sources Serving as Case Histories
  9. Foreword
  10. Acknowledgments to the First Edition
  11. Introduction
  12. PART I - The Problem and the Setting
  13. PART II - Dualism: Generating Consensus from the Suspense of War
  14. PART III - Centralism: The King as Aggressor of the People
  15. PART IV - The Scapegoat King: The People as Aggressor of their King
  16. Conclusion
  17. Appendix I: Chronology of Key Events
  18. Appendix II: Linguistic affinity between the ethnic groups figuring in the text
  19. Archival Sources
  20. Published Titles and Theses
  21. Map of the Peoples of South Sudan
  22. Map of East Bank Equatoria
  23. Name Index of the Kings, Queens, Masters and Other Overlords Figuring in the Dramas of this Study
  24. General Index
  25. Back cover