The King's Three Bodies : Essays on Kingship and Ritual / Burkhard Schnepel.
This collection of essays deals with the rituals of kingship and royalty in India, Africa and Europe from the social anthropological and ethnohistorical points of view. It discusses the dialectical entanglements of rituals conducted for and by kings (including, little kings' and jungle kings...
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Summary: | This collection of essays deals with the rituals of kingship and royalty in India, Africa and Europe from the social anthropological and ethnohistorical points of view. It discusses the dialectical entanglements of rituals conducted for and by kings (including, little kings' and jungle kings') with the wider social, political, cultural, historical, religious and economic contexts in which they were embedded.Part I begins with a triangular comparison of kingship among the Shilluks of East Africa, the Gajapatis of eastern India and kings in Renaissance France. The essay entitled the King's Three Bodies' makes use of Ernst H. Kantorowicz's classical study, The King's Two Bodies in medieval political theology and extends it, not only in terms of the numbers of bodies that are found to be significant, but also theoretically. Another significant essay in this part looks at the unexpected but significant theoretical impact of social anthropological studies of acephalous, segmentary lineage societies in Africa on Indian historiography. The second part of this volume consists of three chapters dealing with the royal patronage of tribal and Hindu goddesses in Eastern India, while the third part presents studies on sleeping (and dreaming) kings and on the power of dead kings, a discussion of A.M. Hocart's dictum that the first kings must have been dead kings. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. |
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Item Description: | 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. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 pages) : 8 illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781000386943 1000386945 9781000386936 1000386937 9781003172512 1003172512 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 06, 2021) |
Biographical or Historical Data: | 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. |