Rituals of royalty :  power and ceremonial in traditional societies / 
edited by David Cannadine and Simon Price. 
 - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  1987. 
 - xi, 351 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Past and present publications .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Usurpation, conquest, and ceremonial / AmeÃÅlie Kuhrt -- From noble funerals to divine cult / Simon Price -- The construction of court ritual / Averil Cameron -- The Lord's anointed and the people's choice / Janet L. Nelson -- Bureaucrats and cosmology / David McMullen -- Gifts to the gods / Richard Burghart -- The ritual of the royal bath in Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- The person of the king / Michelle Gilbert. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521335132 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rites and ceremonies--Cross-cultural studies.<br/>Kings and rulers--Cross-cultural studies.<br/>Power (Social sciences)--Cross-cultural studies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GT5010  / .R56 1987 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>390.22