TY  - GEN
AU  - Sahlins,Marshall
AU  - Graeber,David
TI  - On Kings
PY  - 2017///1101
CY  - Chicago, IL USA
PB  - HAU Books
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Kingship
KW  - Aleriity
KW  - Piracy
KW  - Utopia
KW  - Religion
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Power
KW  - Juok
KW  - Shilluk people
N1  - Open Access
N2  - In anthropology, as much as in the current popular imagination, kings remain figures of fascination and intrigue. As the cliché goes, kings continue to die spectacular deaths only to remain subjects of vitality and long life. This collection of essays by a teacher and his student - two of the world's most distinguished anthropologists- explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. The divine, the stranger, the numinous, the bestial-the implications for understanding kings and their sacred office are not limited to questions of sovereignty, but issues ranging from temporality and alterity to piracy and utopia; indeed, the authors argue that kingship offers us a unique window into the fundamental dilemmas concerning the very nature of power, meaning, and the human condition. With the wit and sharp analysis characteristic of these two thinkers, this volume opens up new avenues for how an anthropological study of kingship might proceed in the 21st century
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UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30717/1/643262.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34649
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