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Title: | Stranger-Kingship and Cosmocracy; or, Sahlins in Southwest China | Authors: | Yongjia, L. | Keywords: | Cosmocracy Sahlins Southwest China Stranger-Kingship |
Issue Date: | Jun-2011 | Citation: | Yongjia, L. (2011-06). Stranger-Kingship and Cosmocracy; or, Sahlins in Southwest China. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 12 (3) : 236-254. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2010.544325 | Abstract: | Major works of the ninth to seventeenth centuries have described the kingship of the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms (652-1254) of Southwest China. I argue that these narratives may be understood in terms of the modes of identifying and assimilating the cosmological alterity proposed by Marshall Sahlins: 'Stranger-kingship', which depicted the king as a stranger; and 'cosmocracy', which depicted him as a universal ruler- a 'cosmocrator'. While a stranger-king was to some extent an extra-social, guest associated with the wild and untamed, and also partly an affine of the autochthonous people, a cosmocrator was a supra-social, moral host, and envisaged more as a consanguine of the subject people. These two pre-modern ideas of sovereignty are constituent parts of Sahlins's 'elementary forms of the politics of life', so that one cannot be reduced to the other. © 2011 The Australian National University. | Source Title: | Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/115297 | ISSN: | 14442213 | DOI: | 10.1080/14442213.2010.544325 |
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