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Kings of Disaster
Simon Simonse
其他書名
Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan
出版African Books Collective, 2017-09-26
主題Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN99702594669789970259465
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=N1V-EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This is the long awaited, revised and illustrated edition of Kings of Disaster, the study of the Rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan that is in many ways a breakthrough in anthropological thinking on African political systems. Taking his inspiration from Ren Girards theory of consensual scapegoating, the author shows that the longstanding distinction of states and stateless societies as two fundamentally different political types does not hold. Centralized and segmentary systems only differ in the relative emphasis put on the victimary role of the king as compared with that of enemy. Kings of Disaster so proposes an uninvolved solution to the vexed problem of regicide.