Showing posts with label kingship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kingship. Show all posts
Sunday, August 04, 2013
From the Archives: Part 34 of The Self and its Sources
Kingship participated in the distinction between the sacred and the profane. The old sacred system is compromised by the effects of the Gospel. The novel as an early symptom of modernity reflects these effects.
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.
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