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1 online resource (557 p.) |
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Notes on the front cover and the citations -- Contents -- Models, Diagrams and Tables -- Narratives from Various Sources Serving as Case Histories -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments to the First Edition -- Introduction -- The aim of this study -- The plan of the book -- A note on terminology: kings, chiefs, masters, rainmakers -- Technical notes -- PART I -- The Problem and the Setting -- 1. The King: Focus of Suspense, Lever of Consensus and Inventor of the State -- Girard's scapegoat mechanism -- The enemy scenario |
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Dualism as the institutional embedding of the enemy scenario -- Centralism as the institutional embedding of the scapegoat scenario -- Frazer's scapegoat king -- Unequal exchange -- The two sources of the king's power -- Early kingship and the genesis of the state -- The state as an evolving cybernetic system -- From regicidal kingdom to sacrificial state -- The state as crystallisation of the mimesis of the antagonist -- 2. Ethnological Connections Between the Nile and the Kidepo -- The geographical setting -- Delimitation of the 'ethnological field of study -- The Eastern Nilotic connection |
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The Madi connection -- The Lwoo connection -- The iron connection -- Melting-pot -- 3. Modes of Subsistence and Social Organisation -- Sorghum, 'life-giver' -- Work-parties and the Big Man -- Cattle and the fly -- Hunting and egalitarianism -- The village: size, layout and defence works -- The monyomiji -- Monyomiji and sections -- Inter-clan relations -- The Rainmaker/king -- 4. The Passing of the Glamour: The Bari -- The beautiful, the brave, and the earthly -- The Bari: The collapse of the hegemony of the Bilinyan Bekat -- The cargo chiefs (1859-1885) -- The Steamer Cult |
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The era of the warlords (1885-1898) -- The government chiefs -- Conclusion -- 5. The Twin Kingdoms: The Lotuho -- The traders (1860-1875) -- The Lotuho under Turco-Egyptian rule (1875-1884) -- The 'Nacar' (1888 -1897) -- The Uganda Protectorate (1898 -1914) -- The Tirangore kingdom during the Condominium (1914-1954) -- The Loronyo kingdom during the Condominium (1914-1954) -- Conclusion -- 6. The Bugbear of the Administration: The Pari, Lokoya, and Lulubo -- The first interactions between the Pari and the Sudan government -- First government interactions with the Lulubo and Lokoya |
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The Lokoya patrols (1910-1920) -- Rainmakers and government chiefs -- Conclusion -- PART II -- Dualism: Generating Consensus from the Suspense of War -- 7. The Dualist Structure of Territorial Organisation -- Violence and social distance -- Warfare -- Hero and victim in warfare -- The dualist structure of sectional organisation -- The tightrope of non-violent competition -- The victimary directionality of warfare between the Kidepo and the Nile -- Conclusion -- 8. The Dualist Structure of Age-class Organisation -- The monyomiji, owners of the community |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Generational succession as transfer of power |
| Subject |
Kinship -- Sudan
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Scapegoat -- Case studies
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Political anthropology -- Sudan
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Nation-state.
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nations.
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Kings and rulers
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Kinship
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Nation-state
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Political anthropology
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Scapegoat
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| SUBJECT |
Sudan -- Kings and rulers -- Case studies
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| Subject |
Sudan
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9970259466 |
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9789970259465 |
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