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The king's three bodies : essays on kingship and ritual / Burkhard Schnepel.
LIBRA GN492.7 .S36 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schnepel, Burkhard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--Kings and rulers--Religious aspects.
- India.
- Africa--Kings and rulers--Religious aspects.
- Africa.
- France--Kings and rulers--Religious aspects.
- France.
- Monarchy--India--History.
- Monarchy.
- Monarchy--Africa--History.
- Monarchy--France--History.
- Rites and ceremonies--India--History.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Rites and ceremonies--Africa--History.
- Rites and ceremonies--France--History.
- Ethnohistory.
- ethnohistory.
- Kings and rulers--Religious aspects.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Manohar, 2021.
- Summary:
- "This collection of essays deals with the rituals of kingship and royalty in India, Africa and Europe from the social anthropological and ethnohistorical points of view. It discusses the dialectical entanglements of rituals conducted for and by kings (including, little kings' and jungle kings') with the wider social, political, cultural, historical, religious and economic contexts in which they were embedded. Part I begins with a triangular comparison of kingship among the Shilluks of East Africa, the Gajapatis of eastern India and kings in Renaissance France. The essay entitled the King's Three Bodies' makes use of Ernst H. Kantorowicz's classical study, The King's Two Bodies in medieval political theology and extends it, not only in terms of the numbers of bodies that are found to be significant, but also theoretically. Another significant essay in this part looks at the unexpected but significant theoretical impact of social anthropological studies of acephalous, segmentary lineage societies in Africa on Indian historiography. The second part of this volume consists of three chapters dealing with the royal patronage of tribal and Hindu goddesses in Eastern India, while the third part presents studies on sleeping (and dreaming) kings and on the power of dead kings, a discussion of A.M. Hocart's dictum that the first kings must have been dead kings"--Back cover.
- This collection of essays deals with the rituals of kingship and royalty in India, Africa and Europe from the social anthropological and ethno-historical points of view.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten International Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9788194991250
- 8194991250
- OCLC:
- 1251737582
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