{"product_id":"kings-of-disaster-simon-simonse-9789970258970","title":"Kings of Disaster: Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the long awaited, revised and illustrated edition of \u003cem\u003eKings of Disaster\u003c\/em\u003e, the study of the Rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan that is in many ways a breakthrough in anthropological thinking on African political systems. Taking his inspiration from Ren  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 victim role of the king as compared with that of enemy. \u003cem\u003eKings of Disaster\u003c\/em\u003e thus proposes an uninvolved solution to the vexed problem of regicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon Simonse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9970258974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789970258970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fountain Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.13d","brand":"Simon Simonse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941416665343,"sku":"9789970258970","price":49.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0b1adda5-7122-4faa-81cb-f5b9ba669352.jpg?v=1681452803","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kings-of-disaster-simon-simonse-9789970258970","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}