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oapen-20.500.12657-307172023-01-31T18:45:23Z On Kings Sahlins, Marshall Graeber, David Anthropology Kingship Aleriity Piracy Utopia Religion Sovereignty Power Juok Shilluk people In anthropology, as much as in the current popular imagination, kings remain figures of fascination and intrigue. As the cliché goes, kings continue to die spectacular deaths only to remain subjects of vitality and long life. This collection of essays by a teacher and his student — two of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists— explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. The divine, the stranger, the numinous, the bestial—the implications for understanding kings and their sacred office are not limited to questions of sovereignty, but issues ranging from temporality and alterity to piracy and utopia; indeed, the authors argue that kingship offers us a unique window into the fundamental dilemmas concerning the very nature of power, meaning, and the human condition. With the wit and sharp analysis characteristic of these two thinkers, this volume opens up new avenues for how an anthropological study of kingship might proceed in the 21st century. 2018-01-01 23:55:55 2020-03-26 03:00:33 2020-04-01T13:08:25Z 2020-04-01T13:08:25Z 2017-11-01 book 643262 OCN: 1030140383 9780986132506 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30717 eng application/pdf n/a 643262.pdf HAU Books 101681 b74962f8-84f3-4d30-ae61-396a70a5d3b0 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780986132506 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Chicago, IL USA 101681 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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In anthropology, as much as in the current popular imagination, kings remain figures of fascination and intrigue. As the cliché goes, kings continue to die spectacular deaths only to remain subjects of vitality and long life. This collection of essays by a teacher and his student — two of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists— explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. The divine, the stranger, the numinous, the bestial—the implications for understanding kings and their sacred office are not limited to questions of sovereignty, but issues ranging from temporality and alterity to piracy and utopia; indeed, the authors argue that kingship offers us a unique window into the fundamental dilemmas concerning the very nature of power, meaning, and the human condition. With the wit and sharp analysis characteristic of these two thinkers, this volume opens up new avenues for how an anthropological study of kingship might proceed in the 21st century.
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