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Shilluk kingshiparticle 1990 • Schnepel, Burkhard
Shilluk • Africa > Eastern Africa
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 ...