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Królowie-obcy, czyli galaktyczny ustrój w antropologicznym ujęciu Sahlinsa i Graebera
Stranger Kings, or the Galactic System in Sahlins and Graeber’s Anthropological Approach

Author(s): Konrad Szlendak
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Czasu Kultury
Keywords: stranger king;Marshall Sahlins;David Graeber;galactic system;meta-beings;monarchy;violence;dynastic myth;indigenous ontology;ontological turn;schismogenesis;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to critically summarize and explicate the key theses put forward by Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber in On Kings [2017]. The author places them in the context of the “ontological turn” (an anthropological position rejecting the hegemony of representation) and points out – somewhat on the margins – their methodological potential for anthropological and historical research on the formation of early medieval royal dynasties in the area of Central and Eastern Europe.

  • Issue Year: XVII/2021
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 141-147
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish
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