Michelutti, L;
Forbess, A;
(2013)
From the mouth of god: divine kinship and popular democratic politics.
Foocal - Journal of Historical and Global Anthropology
, 2013
(67)
pp. 3-18.
10.3167/fcl.2013.670101.
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Abstract
This article proposes "divine kinship" as an analytical tool with which to explore the relation between the divine, "the people", and their political leaders and advance an ethnographically led comparative anthropology of democracy. More specifically, using the political ethnographies of five localities-North India, Venezuela, Montenegro, Russia, and Nepal-we discuss lived understandings of popular sovereignty, electoral representation, and political hope. We argue that charismatic kinship is crucial to understanding the processes by which political leaders and elected representatives become the embodiment of "the people", and highlight the processes through which "ordinary people" are transformed into "extraordinary people" with royal/divine/democratic qualities
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | From the mouth of god: divine kinship and popular democratic politics |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3167/fcl.2013.670101 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2013.670101 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | charisma; divine kinship; political hope; vernacularization of democracy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10186329 |
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