The cultural economy of sacred power
Year: 1999
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Introduction«It may seem a roundabout way of centralising government to let one god devour all the rest. It seems roundabout only to those who are still possessed by the idea that the primary function of a king is to govern; to be head of the administration... he is nothing of the kind. He is the repository of the gods, that is the life of the group. He dispenses prosperity to that group and to that group alone» (Hocart 1936, 98-99).Sacred power (divine kingship) has been an anthropological ...
Author: Michael Rowlands
Institution: University College London
Language: French
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1495930293