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Hocart and the royal road to anthropological understanding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2003

Lucien Scubla
Lucien Scubla
Affiliation:
CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, 1 rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, Francescubla@poly.polytechnique.fr
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Abstract

Anthropology has shown hardly any progress since the Second World War. This is both for general reasons which affect all the sciences, and for reasons specific to anthropology which aggravate these general problems. If the works of Hocart were better known, it would be seen that they provide a way out of this sorry state of affairs. To justify this argument, this article presents the central epistemological principles of the author of Kingship, and the guiding lines of his general theory of ritual.

Type
Research Article
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Social Anthropology , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , October 2002 , pp. 359 - 376
Copyright
© 2002 European Association of Social Anthropologists

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Footnotes

Translated by Declan Quigley. I would like to thank both Declan Quigley and Mark Anspach for their work on this article and their attention to detail. The former provided the bulk of the translation; the latter edited the final version.