Rituals of Royalty
Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies
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- Editors:
- David Cannadine, Columbia University, New York
- Simon Price, University of Oxford
- Date Published: April 1992
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521428910
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Heads of state today mark their rites of passage with splendid ceremonial, from Reagan's inaugural to Andropov's funeral. Such spectacles continue to be a prominent part of modern political systems, of varied ideological hue, but their precise meaning and importance often remain unclear. The essays in this book - all specially written for it - address the central problem in the understanding of royal rituals, namely the relation between power and anthropologists, and the traditional societies examined range from ancient Babylon to nineteenth-century Madagascar, from medieval Europe to contemporary Ghana.
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'This book well represents some of the richness of recent work on ritual, ceremonial, pomp, or whatever other term one chooses to use … How power works is one of the oldest philosophical issues … one of its most essential aspects, its self-presentation, is greatly illuminated by the essays in this book.' History
See more reviews'This is … a collection of fascinating studies, ranging from Babylon to twentieth-century Ghana, from China to Madagascar … Professional historians of the modern period, as well as others, would do well to take ritual seriously.' London Review of Books
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- Date Published: April 1992
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521428910
- length: 364 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 139 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.478kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: divine rites of kings David Cannadine
1. Usurpation, conquest and ceremonial: from Babylon to Persia Amélie Kuhrt
2. From noble funerals to divine cult: the consecration of Roman emperors Simon Price
3. The construction of court ritual: the Byzantine Book of Ceremonies Averil Cameron
4. The Lord's anointed and the people's choice: Carolingian royal ritual Janet L. Nelson
5. Bureaucrats and cosmology: the ritual code of T'ang China David McMullen
6. Gifts to the gods: power, property and ceremonial in Nepal Richard Burghart
7. The ritual of the royal bath in Madagascar: the dissolution of death, birth and fertility into authority Maurice Bloch
8. The person of the king: ritual and power in a Ghanaian state Michelle Gilbert
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