They too imparted female qualities to the kingship, whilst simultaneously affirming the king's manhood.
But this style of kingship and governance proved problematic in its relationship with projects.
There is no hint in this passage of an argument against kingship.
How those more distant from the palace might have viewed kings and kingship is less obvious.
The paradox at the heart of kingship is that it must be simultaneously inclusive and exclusive.
I have critiqued matrilineal descent, divine kingship, the naturalistic fallacy concerning the origins of descent groups and the myth of real kinship.
There were also new services and offices prescribed for kingship and the state under colonialism.
These rhetorics of kingship may indeed be regarded as a social reality in their own right.
