On kings

1. Verfasser: Graeber, David , [VerfasserIn]
Sahlins, Marshall David, 1930- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Chicago, Illinois : Hau Books, [2017]
Umfang/Format: xv, 536 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9780986132506
0986132500
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: On kings (online version)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins
  • The original political society / Marshall Sahlins
  • The divine kingship of the Shilluk : on violence, utopia, and the human condition / David Graeber
  • The atemporal dimensions of history : in the old Kongo kingdom, for example / Marshall Sahlins
  • The stranger-kingship of the Mexica / Marshall Sahlins
  • The people as nursemaids of the king : notes on monarchs as children, women's uprisings, and the return of the ancestral dead in central Madagascar / David Graeber
  • The cultural politics of core-periphery relations / Marshall Sahlins
  • Notes on the politics of divine kingship : or, elements for an archaeology of sovereignty / David Graeber.