Book Description
Contributed research papers.
Author : Narendra Kumar Singhi
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Hinduism
ISBN :
Contributed research papers.
Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 1992-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521428910
Heads of state today mark their rites of passage with splendid ceremonial, from Reagan's inaugural to Andropov's funeral. Such spectacles continue to be a prominent part of modern political systems, of varied ideological hue, but their precise meaning and importance often remain unclear. The essays in this book - all specially written for it - address the central problem in the understanding of royal rituals, namely the relation between power and anthropologists, and the traditional societies examined range from ancient Babylon to nineteenth-century Madagascar, from medieval Europe to contemporary Ghana.
Author : Jean Hani
Publisher : The Matheson Trust
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 190809205X
This book takes the reader on an intellectually and spiritually rewarding journey 'from the pharaoh to the most Christian king'. In his study of sacred royalty, Jean Hani explores a wide range of traditional societies, and demonstrates how royalty, insofar as it maintained its sacral character, integrated society into the cosmic order. Through this integration regal authority traditionally served as a reflection of the heavenly order, whatever be the particular character of the revealed traditon within which that authority functions. --Book cover.
Author : Narendra Singhi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 1999-05
Category :
ISBN : 9788170334880
Author : Michael Enright
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 3110855518
Author : Burkhard Schnepel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1000386945
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.
Author : David Cannadine
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Kings and rulers
ISBN :
Author : Grand Council
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781497902299
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.
Author : Edwin Sidney Hartland
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Ethnopsychology
ISBN :
Author : Ian Bradley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441193677
An exploration of the spiritual and religious heart of monarchy, from its sacred origins to its place in a multi-cultural and often unbelieving society.