Thursday, July 25, 2013

From the Archives: Part 33 of The Self and its Sources




Anthropological field studies of kingship…continued: Affection for the king?

Thursday, July 18, 2013

From the Archives: Part 32 of The Self and its Sources




Anthropological field studies of kingship…continued. Kingship is an extended sacrificial ritual…the king is the victim with an extended sentence.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

From the Archives: Part 31 of The Self and its Sources




The sacred system comes into being when the crowd gathers around the corpse of the victim.
All cultural structures are generated from that event. And one can read the traces of that event in cultural aftereffects. An anthropological case study from equatorial Africa.