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.
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Kings of Disaster
Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan
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- English
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African HistoryIndex
Social SciencesTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Models, Diagrams and Tables
- Narratives from Various Sources Serving as Case Histories
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments to the First Edition
- Introduction
- Part I: The Problem and the Setting
- Part II: Dualism: Generating Consensus from the Suspense of War
- Part III: Centralism: The King as Aggressor of the People
- Part IV: The Scapegoat King: The People as Aggressor of their King
- Conclusion
- Appendix I: Chronology of Key Events
- Appendix II: Linguistic affinity between the ethnic groups figuring in the text
- Archival Sources
- Published Titles and Theses
- Map of the Peoples of South Sudan
- Map of East Bank Equatoria
- Name Index of the Kings, Queens, Masters and Other Overlords Figuring in the Dramas of this Study
- General Index
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