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001 2005018454
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008 050630s2005 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a1845202902 (cloth)
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020 $a9781845202903 (cloth)
020 $a9781845202910 (paper)
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050 00 $aGN492.7$b.C43 2005
082 04 $a306$222
245 04 $aThe character of kingship /$cedited by Declan Quigley.
250 $aEnglish ed.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bBerg,$c2005.
300 $avi, 257 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"Developed from discussions held during a conference on kingship in St. Andrews, Scotland in January 2002"--Acknowledgements.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the character of kingship / Declan Quigley -- Forms of sacralized power in Africa / Luc de Heusch -- Sacred king, sacrificial victim, surrogate victim or Frazer, Hocart, Girard / Lucien Scubla -- A reply to Lucien Scubla / Luc de Heusch -- Tragedy, ritual and power in Nilotic regicide : the regicidal dramas of the eastern Nilotes of Sudan in comparative perspective / Simon Simonse -- The transgressive nature of kingship in caste organization : monstrous royal doubles in Nepal / Marie Lecomte-Tilouine -- Kingship and untouchability / Declan Quigley -- Kingship and caste in Africa : history, diffusion and evolution / Tal Tamari -- King house : the mobile polity in northern Ghana / Susan Drucker-Brown -- Kings and tribes in east India : the internal political dimension / Burkhard Schnepel -- Japanese monarchy in historical and comparative perspective / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney -- Chiefs and kings in Polynesia / Henri J. M. Claessen.
650 0 $aKings and rulers.
650 0 $aChiefdoms.
700 1 $aQuigley, Declan.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005018454-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005018454-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005018454-t.html