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Shilluk kingship: power struggles and the question of succession
Anthropos • 85 • Published In 1990 • Pages: 105-124
By: Schnepel, Burkhard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the nature of Shilluk King's authority by reinterpreting available ethnographic information and historical data on succession to kingship. The article argues that the Shilluk kingship represents not a divine kingship as viewed by earlier anthropologists but 'a routinized form of charismatic domination' which has to be occupied not by just any princely candidate but by the right, charismatically qualified one.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- Status, role, and prestige
- Social personality
- Inheritance
- Territorial hierarchy
- Community structure
- Localized kin groups
- Inter-community relations
- External relations
- History
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Shilluk
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1980-1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Burkhard Schnepel
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-124)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 07021775
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Shilluk (African people)