[PDF] The Kings Scapegoat eBook

Author : Simon Simonse
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1628953330

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The long-awaited, revised, and illustrated edition of Simon Simonse’s study of the Rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan marks a breakthrough in anthropological thinking on African political systems. Taking his inspiration from René Girard’s theory of consensual scapegoating, the author shows that the longstanding 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 of the king as compared with that of enemy. Kings of Disaster proposes an elegant and powerful solution to the vexed problem of regicide.

Author : Hamilton Drummond
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The King's Scapegoat" by Hamilton Drummond. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Hamilton Drummond
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781334910050

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Excerpt from The King's Scapegoat T hasbeenwdthat thefirstthirdofaman's lifeisthesowing, thesecondthegrowing, and the last the mowing, but with seedtime this story has nothing to do. The first more than twenty years of life may be brushed aside. It is enough that in them I lost first, my father; then, fifteen years later, my mother; and for three years had been my own master; if a man could call himself his own who was the slave and worship of his mother's nurse and his father's squire. The story then begins on a late spring day in 1483. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : René Girard
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 1989-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801839173

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"[Girard's] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal." -- John Yoder, Religion and Literature.

Author : Sylvia Brinton Perera
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Displacement (Psychology)
ISBN :

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An in-depth study of victim psychology based on historical ritual dreams, mythology and case material. Shows that scapegoating is a way of denying one's own dark side by projecting it onto others.