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The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until
Kingship and State Formation in Sweden
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This book is the first treatment in English of the medieval Swedish kingdom in its formative period, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It provides an overvi
Sacred Kingship in World History
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Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplin
Kinship to Kingship
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Pages: 345
Authors: Christine Ward Gailey
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-12-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Have women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did women’s subordination develop? Kinship to Kingship was the first book to examine in detail how an
How Chiefs Became Kings
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Patrick Vinton Kirch
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-07 - Publisher: University of California Press

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In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of “archaic states” whose distinc