The character of kingship
By: edited by Declan Quigley.
Contributors: Quigley, Declan.
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781845202903; 9781845202910
Subjects: Kings and rulers.; Chiefdoms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Developed from discussions held during a conference on kingship in St. Andrews, Scotland in January 2002"--Acknowledgements.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The character of kingship / Declan Quigley; title: Forms of sacralized power in Africa / Luc de Heusch; title: Sacred king, sacrificial victim, surrogate victim or Frazer, Hocart, Girard / Lucien Scubla; title: A reply to Lucien Scubla / Luc de Heusch; title: Tragedy, ritual, and power in Nilotic regicide : the regicidal dramas of the eastern Nilotes of Sudan in comparative perspective / Simon Simonse; title: The transgressive nature of kingship in caste organization : monstrous royal doubles in Nepal / Marie Lecomte-Tilouine; title: Kingship and untouchability / Declan Quigley; title: Kingship and caste in Africa : history, diffusion, and evolution / Tal Tamari; title: King house : the mobile polity in northern Ghana / Susan Drucker-Brown; title: Kings and tribes in east India : the internal political dimension / Burkhard Schnepel; title: Japanese monarchy in historical and comparative perspective / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney; title: Chiefs and kings in Polynesia / Henri J. M. Claessen.