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Continuity despite and through death: regicide and royal shrines among the shilluk of southern Sudan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

Burkhard Schnepel
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Cet article analyse à nouveau les problèmes soulevés par le régicide pratiqué par les Shilluk et les rites associés aux mausolées royaux. Grâce à de nouvelles informations acquises sur le terrain, des textes coloniaux plus anciens et des analyses anthropologiques ultérieures, l'auteur compare les idées des Shilluk au concept médiéval des ‘deux corps du roi’ décrit par l'historien E. H. Kantorowicz, et souligne les différences fondamentales. La royauté Shilluk est ouverte, compétitive et charismatique. De surcroît, l'inter-règne, loin de menacerl'ordre et les lois, est en fait une période de renouvellement, de renforcement et d'expression de l'ordre social et de la continuité fictive de la royauté. Allant plus loin encore et plutôt que de réagir seulement au choc d'un décès, les Shilluk mettent en avant le thème de la mort et recherchent la vie à travers la mort, et non pas simplement la vie en dépit de la mort.

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Africa , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 40 - 70
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Copyright © International African Institute 1991

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