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Shilluk kingship: power struggles and the question of succession
Anthropos • 85 • Published In 1990 • Pages: 105-124
By: Schnepel, Burkhard.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field Date
- 1980-1982
- Coverage Date
- 1900-1990
- Coverage Place
- Sudan
- Notes
- Burkhard Schnepel
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-124)
- LCCN
- 07021775
- LCSH
- Shilluk (African people)