Kings of Disaster : Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan.

Kings of Disaster : Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simonse, Simon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Champaign : Fountain Publishers Limited, 2017.
Subjects:
Kinship > Sudan.
Scapegoat > Case studies.
Political anthropology > Sudan.
Nation-state.
Sudan > Kings and rulers > Case studies.
Case studies
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Notes on the front cover and the citations
  • Contents
  • Models, Diagrams and Tables
  • Narratives from Various Sources Serving as Case Histories
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments to the First Edition
  • Introduction
  • The aim of this study
  • The plan of the book
  • A note on terminology: kings, chiefs, masters, rainmakers
  • Technical notes
  • PART I
  • The Problem and the Setting
  • 1. The King: Focus of Suspense, Lever of Consensus and Inventor of the State
  • Girard's scapegoat mechanism
  • The enemy scenario
  • Dualism as the institutional embedding of the enemy scenario
  • Centralism as the institutional embedding of the scapegoat scenario
  • Frazer's scapegoat king
  • Unequal exchange
  • The two sources of the king's power
  • Early kingship and the genesis of the state
  • The state as an evolving cybernetic system
  • From regicidal kingdom to sacrificial state
  • The state as crystallisation of the mimesis of the antagonist
  • 2. Ethnological Connections Between the Nile and the Kidepo
  • The geographical setting
  • Delimitation of the 'ethnological field of study
  • The Eastern Nilotic connection
  • The Madi connection
  • The Lwoo connection
  • The iron connection
  • Melting-pot
  • 3. Modes of Subsistence and Social Organisation
  • Sorghum, 'life-giver'
  • Work-parties and the Big Man
  • Cattle and the fly
  • Hunting and egalitarianism
  • The village: size, layout and defence works
  • The monyomiji
  • Monyomiji and sections
  • Inter-clan relations
  • The Rainmaker/king
  • 4. The Passing of the Glamour: The Bari
  • The beautiful, the brave, and the earthly
  • The Bari: The collapse of the hegemony of the Bilinyan Bekat
  • The cargo chiefs (1859-1885)
  • The Steamer Cult
  • The era of the warlords (1885-1898)
  • The government chiefs
  • Conclusion
  • 5. The Twin Kingdoms: The Lotuho
  • The traders (1860-1875)
  • The Lotuho under Turco-Egyptian rule (1875-1884)
  • The 'Nacar' (1888 -1897)
  • The Uganda Protectorate (1898 -1914)
  • The Tirangore kingdom during the Condominium (1914-1954)
  • The Loronyo kingdom during the Condominium (1914-1954)
  • Conclusion
  • 6. The Bugbear of the Administration: The Pari, Lokoya, and Lulubo
  • The first interactions between the Pari and the Sudan government
  • First government interactions with the Lulubo and Lokoya
  • The Lokoya patrols (1910-1920)
  • Rainmakers and government chiefs
  • Conclusion
  • PART II
  • Dualism: Generating Consensus from the Suspense of War
  • 7. The Dualist Structure of Territorial Organisation
  • Violence and social distance
  • Warfare
  • Hero and victim in warfare
  • The dualist structure of sectional organisation
  • The tightrope of non-violent competition
  • The victimary directionality of warfare between the Kidepo and the Nile
  • Conclusion
  • 8. The Dualist Structure of Age-class Organisation
  • The monyomiji, owners of the community

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