LEADER 02781 am 22004213u 450 001 9910256646203321 005 20220531043824.0 010 $a1-912808-14-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000001948714 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5510774 035 $a(ScCtBLL)5f921039-00a3-458d-b301-fcda62a12c79 035 $a(OCoLC)1030140383 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001948714 100 $a20180929d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOn kings /$fDavid Graeber, Marshall Sahlins 210 1$aChicago, Illinois :$cHAU Books,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (390 pages) 311 $a0-9861325-0-0 327 $aPreface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The original political society -- Chapter 2. The divine kingship of the Shilluk: On violence, utopia, and the human condition -- Chapter 3. The temporal dimensions of history: In the old Kongo kingdom, for example -- Chapter 4. The stranger-kingship of the Mexica -- Chapter 5. 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 -- Chapter 6. The cultural politics of core-periphery relations -- Chapter 7. Notes on the politics of divine kingship: Or, elements for an archaeology of sovereignty -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aKings and rulers 607 $aBad Ko?nig$2gnd 615 0$aKings and rulers. 676 $a321.00922 700 $aGraeber$b David$0147453 702 $aSahlins$b Marshall$f1930-2021, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910256646203321 996 $aOn kings$92092702 997 $aUNINA