The King's Three Bodies: Essays on Kingship and Ritual

ISBN-13: 9781032000534 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 338 str.

Burkhard Schnepel

Opis

This book deals with the rituals of kingship and royalty in India, Africa and Europe from social anthropological and ethno­historical points of view. It discusses the dialectical entanglements of rituals conducted for and by kings with a wider social, political, cultural, historical, religious and economic context.

Spis treści

PART I. Royal Authority And The State 1. The King’s Three Bodies: Royal Effigies in Southern Sudan, East India and Renaissance France 2. African Polities and the Pre-Modern Indian State PART II. Kings, ‘Tribes’ and Goddesses 3. Tutelary Deities: The Royal Patronage of Tribal Goddesses 4. The Hindu King’s Authority Reconsidered: Durgā-Pūjā and Dasarā in a South Orissan Jungle Kingdom 5. Contact Zone: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Relationship between Kings and Tribes in Middle India PART III. Of Sleeping And Dead Kings 6. ‘In Sleep a King . . .’: The Politics of Dreaming in a Cross-Cultural Perspective 7. ‘The First Kings must have been Dead Kings’: A.M. Hocart on Kingship and Ritual

O autorze

Burkhard Schnepel is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany. His main theoretical and thematic interests are political rituals in India, especially in Orissa, and the history of the Indian Ocean world, especially Mauritius.