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The King's Three Bodies : Essays on Kingship and Ritual / Burkhard Schnepel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schnepel, Burkhard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monarchy--India--History.
- Monarchy.
- Monarchy--Africa--History.
- Monarchy--Europe--History.
- Rites and ceremonies--India--History.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Rites and ceremonies--Africa--History.
- Rites and ceremonies--Europe--History.
- India--Kings and rulers.
- India.
- Africa--Kings and rulers.
- Africa.
- Europe--Kings and rulers.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 pages) : 8 illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge : Manohar, 2021.
- Biography/History:
- Burkhard Schnepel is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany. His main theoretical and thematic interests are political rituals in India, especially in Orissa, and the history of the Indian Ocean world, especially Mauritius.
- Notes:
- PART I. Royal Authority And The State 1. The King's Three Bodies: Royal Effigies in Southern Sudan, East India and Renaissance France 2. African Polities and the Pre-Modern Indian State PART II. Kings, 'Tribes' and Goddesses 3. Tutelary Deities: The Royal Patronage of Tribal Goddesses 4. The Hindu King's Authority Reconsidered: Durgā-Pūjā and Dasarā in a South Orissan Jungle Kingdom 5. Contact Zone: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Relationship between Kings and Tribes in Middle India PART III. Of Sleeping And Dead Kings 6. 'In Sleep a King . . .': The Politics of Dreaming in a Cross-Cultural Perspective 7. 'The First Kings must have been Dead Kings': A.M. Hocart on Kingship and Ritual.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 06, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781000386943
- 1000386945
- 9781000386936
- 1000386937
- 9781003172512
- 1003172512
- Publisher Number:
- 40031408939
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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