"Developed from discussions held during a conference on kingship in St. Andrews, Scotland in January 2002"--Acknowledgements.
Introduction : the character of kingship / Declan Quigley
Forms of sacralized power in Africa / Luc de Heusch
Sacred king, sacrificial victim, surrogate victim or Frazer, Hocart, Girard / Lucien Scubla
A reply to Lucien Scubla / Luc de Heusch
Tragedy, ritual and power in Nilotic regicide : the regicidal dramas of the eastern Nilotes of Sudan in comparative perspective / Simon Simonse
The transgressive nature of kingship in caste organization : monstrous royal doubles in Nepal / Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
Kingship and untouchability / Declan Quigley
Kingship and caste in Africa : history, diffusion and evolution / Tal Tamari
King house : the mobile polity in northern Ghana / Susan Drucker-Brown
Kings and tribes in east India : the internal political dimension / Burkhard Schnepel
Japanese monarchy in historical and comparative perspective / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Chiefs and kings in Polynesia / Henri J. M. Claessen.
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