Author: Declan Quigley
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: kingship, character
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-12-16
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 1845202910
ISBN-13: 9781845202910
Despite the contemporary fascination with royalty, anthropologists have sorely neglected the subject in recent decades. This book combines a strong theoretical argument with a wealth of ethnography from kingships in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Quigley gives a timely and much-needed overview of the anthropology of kingship and a crucial reassessment of the contributions of Frazer and Hocart to debates about the nature and function of royal ritual. From diverse fieldwork sites a number of eminent anthropologists demonstrate how ritual and power intertwine to produce a series of variations arou
Author: JaHyun Kim Haboush
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: korea, kingship, confucian
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-03-15
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0231066570
ISBN-13: 9780231066570
The Neo-Confucian kingship was based on the ideal of the sage king, an ordinary human being rendered supreme through his extraordinary virtue. The eighteenth-century Korean ruler Yôngjo, one of that country´s most illustrious yet most tragic rulers, is a fascinating example of the Neo-Confucian sage kingship. In this book, JaHyun Kim Haboush provides an outstanding, dramatically realized introduction to traditional Korean culture through the story of Yôngjo, and offers profound insights into the complex interplay between Confucian rhetoric and the politics of the Yi monarchy. Haboush focuse
Author: Joan Piggott
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: kingship, japanese, emergence
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 0804728321
ISBN-13: 9780804728324
This is the first comprehensive study of the sources and nature of classical Japanese kingship and state formation. To draw new insights from the rich body of extant documents and artifacts from early Japan, the author employs the analytical tools of recent Western historiography and anthropology, constructing an archeology of kingship” that begins by exposing the roots of Japanese monarchy in third-century chieftaincy.The book then traces sovereignty and polity through a series of temporal cross sections, analogous to an archaeologist’s trenches, to reveal artifacts from seven historica
Author: G Barrow
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: scotland, history, new, unity, kingship
Number of Pages: 185
Published: 1989-12-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 074860104X
ISBN-13: 9780748601042
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Author: Mehmet-Ali Ataç
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: art, assyrian, neo, kingship, mythology
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2010-02-08
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0521517907
ISBN-13: 9780521517904
The relief slabs that decorated the palaces of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which emphasized military conquest and royal prowess, have traditionally been understood as statements of imperial propaganda that glorified the Assyrian king. In this book, Mehmet-Ali Ataç argues that the reliefs hold a deeper meaning that was addressed primarily to an internal audience composed of court scholars and master craftsmen. Ataç focuses on representations of animals, depictions of the king as priest and warrior, and figures of mythological beings that evoke an archaic cosmos. He demonstrates that these images
Author: Charles. DREKMEIER
Publisher: Stanford University Press / Oxford University Press, 1962.
Keywords: india, community, kingship
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1962
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0804701148
ISBN-13: 9780804701143
Author: Francis Oakley
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: perspectives, past, new, enchantmant, politics, kingship
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-02-21
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0631226966
ISBN-13: 9780631226963
From despots to powerless figureheads, and from the Neolithic era to the present, this book traces the history of kingship around the world and the tenacity of its connection with the sacred.Considers the many forms that kingship took during this period, including: the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt; the emperors of Japan; the Maya rulers of Mesoamerica; the medieval popes and emperors; and the English and French monarchs of early modern Europe Explores the panoply of governing roles that kingship involved – administrative, military, judicial, economic, religious and symbolic – but focussing on
