Simon Simonse
Biographic Data
| ID | 79199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Simonse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Simonse |
| SIGNATURE | SIMONSE S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Kings of Disaster
Kings of Disaster
Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa
Eisei Kurimoto and Simon Simonse (eds), Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa: age systems in transition.Oxford: James Currey; Nairobi: East African Educational Publishing; Kampala: Fountain; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1998, 270 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 252 1, hard covers, £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 251 3, paperback. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa
Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa
Kings of Disaster
Kings of Disaster
This study of the rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan means a breakthrough in anthropological thinking on African political systems. Taking his inspiration from Rene Girard's theory of consensual scapegoating the author shows that the long standing distinction of states and stateless societies as two fundamentally different political types does not hold. Centralized and segmentary systems only differ in the relative emphasis put on the victimary role…
Syndebukkemekanismen i nilotisk kongedømme
Den bristede og den opskærne mave.In a structural analysis of the ritual in the treatment of the stomach of the dead king (or queen) in some Upper-Nilotic societies, the role of the kind a a "rain maker" (or the opposite) is demonstrated. Furthermore, the king is the point around which social tensions and rivalry is concentrated, either to be solved by him or be acted out with the king as a scapegoat. Girard's "scapegoat theory", while basically …
Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa
Kings of Disaster
This study of the rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan means a breakthrough in anthropological thinking on African political systems. Taking his inspiration from Rene Girard's theory of consensual scapegoating the author shows that the long standing distinction of states and stateless societies as two fundamentally different political types does not hold. Centralized and segmentary systems only differ in the relative emphasis put on the victimary role…
Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa
Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa
Eisei Kurimoto and Simon Simonse (eds), Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa: age systems in transition.Oxford: James Currey; Nairobi: East African Educational Publishing; Kampala: Fountain; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1998, 270 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 252 1, hard covers, £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 251 3, paperback. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Kings of Disaster
This study of the rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan means a breakthrough in anthropological thinking on African political systems. Taking his inspiration from Rene Girard's theory of consensual scapegoating the author shows that the long standing distinction of states and stateless societies as two fundamentally different political types does not hold. Centralized and segmentary systems only differ in the relative emphasis put on the victimary role…
Syndebukkemekanismen i nilotisk kongedømme
Den bristede og den opskærne mave.In a structural analysis of the ritual in the treatment of the stomach of the dead king (or queen) in some Upper-Nilotic societies, the role of the kind a a "rain maker" (or the opposite) is demonstrated. Furthermore, the king is the point around which social tensions and rivalry is concentrated, either to be solved by him or be acted out with the king as a scapegoat. Girard's "scapegoat theory", while basically …
Kings of Disaster
Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa
Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa
Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa
Eisei Kurimoto and Simon Simonse (eds), Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa: age systems in transition.Oxford: James Currey; Nairobi: East African Educational Publishing; Kampala: Fountain; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1998, 270 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 252 1, hard covers, £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 251 3, paperback. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Kings of Disaster
Kings of Disaster
History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · African history and culture analysis (3 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Power (physics (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works)