On Kings / David Graeber, Marshall Sahlins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graeber, David, author.

Sahlins, Marshall, 1930-2021, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (558 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL USA : HAU Books, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 â€" two of the world's most distinguished anthropologistsâ€" explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. The divine, the stranger, the numinous, the bestialâ€"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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The original political society / Marshall Sahlins Sahlins, Marshall 23

Chapter 2 The divine kingship of the Shilluk: On violence, Utopia, and the human condition / David Graeber Graeber, David 65

Chapter 3 The atemporal dimensions of history: In the old Kongo kingdom, for example / Marshall Sahlins Sahlins, Marshall 139

Chapter 4 The stranger-kingship of the Mexica / Marshall Sahlins Sahlins, Marshall 223

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 / David Graeber Graeber, David 249

Chapter 6 The cultural politics of core-periphery relations / Marshall Sahlins Sahlins, Marshall 345

Chapter 7 Notes on the politics of divine kingship: Or, elements for an archaeology of sovereignty / David Graeber Graeber, David 377.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101681

ISBN:

9780986132506