In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists—David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins—explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. As they show, kings a...
In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists—David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins—explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. As they show, kings are symbols for more than just sovereignty: indeed, the study of kingship offers a unique window into fundamental dilemmas concerning the very nature of power, meaning, and the human condition.
Reflecting on issues such as temporality, alterity, piracy, and utopia—not to mention the divine, the strange, the numinous, and the bestial—Graeber and Sahlins explore the role of kings as they have existed around the world, from the BaKongo to the Aztec to the Shilluk and beyond. Richly delivered with the wit and sharp analysis characteristic of Graeber and Sahlins, this book opens up new avenues for the anthropological study of this fascinating and ubiquitous political figure.
Chapter One: The original political society
Marshall Sahlins
Chapter Two: The divine kingship of the Shilluk: On violence, utopia, and the human condition
David Graeber
Chapter Three: The atemporal dimensions of history: In the old Kongo kingdom, for example
Marshall Sahlins
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Chapter One: The original political society
Marshall Sahlins
Chapter Two: The divine kingship of the Shilluk: On violence, utopia, and the human condition
David Graeber
Chapter Three: The atemporal dimensions of history: In the old Kongo kingdom, for example
Marshall Sahlins
Chapter Four: The stranger-kingship of the Mexica
Marshall Sahlins
Chapter Five: The people as nursemaids of the king: Notes on monarchs as children, women’s uprisings, and the return of the ancestral dead in central Madagascar
David Graeber
Chapter Six: The cultural politics of core–periphery relations
Marshall Sahlins
Chapter Seven: Notes on the politics of divine kingship: Or, elements for an archaeology of sovereignty
David Graeber
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Where even animals and plants are thinking things, the appropriate anthropology should be Hocartesian rather than Cartesian. Rather than a subject–object relation in which a heroic individual imposes form upon inert matter, making it come-tobe according to his or her own plan, at issue here are intersubjective relations between humans and the metaperson-others whose dispositions will be decisive for the material result. (查看原文)
"Human societies are hierarchically encompassed [...] in a cosmic polity populated by beings of human attributes and metahuman powers who govern the people’s fate. In the form of gods, ancestors, ghosts, demons, speciesmasters, and the animistic beings embodied in the creatures and features of nature, these metapersons are endowed with far-reaching powers of human life and death [...] Even many loosely structured hunting and gathering peoples are thus subordinated to beings on the order of gods ruling over great territorial domains and the whole of the human population. There are kingly beings in heaven even where there are no chiefs on earth." (查看原文)
MS: special thanks to DG: David was a student of mine; I supervised his thesis at the University of Chicago. Since then it has been difficult to say who is the student and who the teacher. DG：to my te...MS: special thanks to DG: David was a student of mine; I supervised his thesis at the University of Chicago. Since then it has been difficult to say who is the student and who the teacher. DG：to my teacher and mentor, MS.There was a widespread rumor in Chicago that I was “unteachable.” I like to think this volume demonstrates this was not that case(展开)
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5 有用 贺戟 2023-11-23 02:55:44 北京
称得上是伟大的作品了吧，仍需消化。首先，人类处境真是一个“有神”的世界，是超自然政权为人类模仿而不是反之；其次，“陌生人-王”是一种联结社会丰产和公共性秩序的政治发生学（譬如非洲众部落的土著才是土地这一生产资料的主人，而国王是外来的英雄、征服者）；再次，通过模仿神的专断凶残、超乎人类道德秩序，国王建构divine kingship以化解统治中基于不同历史观与本体论带来的统治危机（祖先与当代君王同时... 称得上是伟大的作品了吧，仍需消化。首先，人类处境真是一个“有神”的世界，是超自然政权为人类模仿而不是反之；其次，“陌生人-王”是一种联结社会丰产和公共性秩序的政治发生学（譬如非洲众部落的土著才是土地这一生产资料的主人，而国王是外来的英雄、征服者）；再次，通过模仿神的专断凶残、超乎人类道德秩序，国王建构divine kingship以化解统治中基于不同历史观与本体论带来的统治危机（祖先与当代君王同时存在带来的压迫）。而人民实际上将其神圣化为scared kingship将其隔离出社会，对其控制，甚至出现（仪式性）的弑君。国家既是一种合法暴力机构又是乌托邦的观念可能也来源于此；最后，国王与人民永远处于构成性的战争中，人民主权或许只是王权的永恒战争的当代结构翻转。喜欢格雷伯那几篇，黑色幽默，可爱。 (展开)
3 有用 双层吉士堡 2024-05-11 02:33:00 英国
真的英年早逝好可惜….
2 有用 布尔加科夫 2024-09-15 00:59:13 山东
真正的神作，应该说是现在大卫最需要出中文译本的作品
1 有用 Nowhereman 2023-06-20 05:08:46 法国
二刷，和克拉斯特对读，好书
0 有用 Hypothesis. 2025-01-15 02:16:20 英国
MS: special thanks to DG: David was a student of mine; I supervised his thesis at the University of Chicago. Since then it has been difficult to say who is the student and who the teacher. DG：to my te... MS: special thanks to DG: David was a student of mine; I supervised his thesis at the University of Chicago. Since then it has been difficult to say who is the student and who the teacher. DG：to my teacher and mentor, MS.There was a widespread rumor in Chicago that I was “unteachable.” I like to think this volume demonstrates this was not that case (展开)