Kings of Disaster
Download or Read eBook Kings of Disaster PDF written by Simon Simonse and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Simon Simonse |
| Publisher | : MSU Press |
| Total Pages | : 642 |
| Release | : 2018-05-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781628953336 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1628953330 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Kings of Disaster by : Simon Simonse
Book excerpt: The long-awaited, revised, and illustrated edition of Simon Simonse’s study of the Rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan marks 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 victimary role of the king as compared with that of enemy. Kings of Disaster proposes an elegant and powerful solution to the vexed problem of regicide.
