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Language: English
Published by Fountain Publishers, 2017
Series: Book 40 of 54 - Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
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- Title
- Kings of Disaster
- Author
- Simon Simonse
- Publisher
- Fountain Publishers
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9970258974
- ISBN 13
- 9789970258970
- Item weight
- 875 grams
- Series
- Book 40 of 54: Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
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 René Girard’s 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 victim role of the king as compared with that of enemy. Kings of Disaster thus proposes an uninvolved solution to the vexed problem of regicide.
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