The king's three bodies essays on kingship and ritual Burkhard Schnepel.

By: Schnepel, BurkhardMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi Manohar 2021Description: 336 pages 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9788194991250Subject(s): Monarchy -- Africa -- History | Monarchy -- Europe -- History | Monarchy -- India -- History | Rites and ceremonies -- Africa -- History | Rites and ceremonies -- Europe -- History | Rites and ceremonies -- India -- History | Africa -- Kings and rulers | Europe -- Kings and rulers | India -- Kings and rulers
Contents:
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.
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.
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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.

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.

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