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Exalting the King and Obstructing the State: A Political Interpretation of Royal Ritual in Bastar District, Central India Author(s): Alfred Gell Source: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 433- 450 Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3034761 Accessed: 30/06/2009 13:33 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=rai. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. http://www.jstor.org

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  • Exalting the King and Obstructing the State: A Political Interpretation of Royal Ritual inBastar District, Central IndiaAuthor(s): Alfred GellSource: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 433-450Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and IrelandStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3034761Accessed: 30/06/2009 13:33

    Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available athttp://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unlessyou have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and youmay use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use.

    Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained athttp://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=rai.

    Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printedpage of such transmission.

    JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with thescholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform thatpromotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].

    Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserveand extend access to The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

    http://www.jstor.org

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    Issue Table of ContentsThe Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 433-652Front Matter [pp. 472 - 472]Erratum: Tattooing, Gender and Social Stratification in Micro-PolynesiaExalting the King and Obstructing the State: A Political Interpretation of Royal Ritual in Bastar District, Central India [pp. 433 - 450]Contested Commodities: The Moral Landscape of Modernist Regimes [pp. 451 - 471]Art and Politics: From Javanese Court Dance to Indonesian Art [pp. 473 - 495]Engendering School Children in Bali [pp. 497 - 516]A `Different' Body? Desire and Virginity Among Gitanos [pp. 517 - 535]The Woman with the Zebra's Penis: Gender, Mutability and Performance [pp. 537 - 560]Elders' Authority and Women's Protest: The Masay Ritual and Social Change Among the Iraqw of Tanzania [pp. 561 - 576]Meteorological Knowledge and Environmental Ideas in Traditional and Modern Societies: The Case of Tibet [pp. 577 - 597]Book Reviewsuntitled [pp. 599 - 600]untitled [pp. 600 - 601]untitled [p. 601]untitled [pp. 601 - 602]untitled [pp. 602 - 603]untitled [pp. 603 - 604]untitled [pp. 604 - 605]untitled [pp. 605 - 606]untitled [pp. 606 - 607]untitled [pp. 607 - 608]untitled [pp. 608 - 609]untitled [pp. 609 - 610]untitled [p. 610]untitled [pp. 610 - 612]untitled [pp. 612 - 613]untitled [p. 613]untitled [pp. 614 - 615]untitled [p. 615]untitled [pp. 615 - 616]untitled [pp. 616 - 617]untitled [pp. 617 - 618]untitled [pp. 618 - 619]untitled [pp. 619 - 620]untitled [pp. 620 - 621]untitled [pp. 621 - 622]untitled [p. 622]untitled [pp. 622 - 623]untitled [pp. 623 - 624]untitled [pp. 624 - 625]untitled [pp. 625 - 626]untitled [pp. 626 - 627]untitled [pp. 627 - 628]untitled [pp. 628 - 629]untitled [pp. 629 - 630]untitled [pp. 630 - 631]untitled [pp. 631 - 632]untitled [pp. 632 - 633]untitled [pp. 633 - 634]untitled [pp. 634 - 635]untitled [pp. 635 - 636]untitled [pp. 636 - 637]untitled [pp. 637 - 638]untitled [pp. 638 - 639]untitled [p. 639]untitled [pp. 639 - 640]untitled [pp. 640 - 641]untitled [pp. 641 - 642]untitled [pp. 642 - 643]untitled [pp. 643 - 645]untitled [p. 645]untitled [pp. 645 - 646]untitled [pp. 646 - 647]

    Books Received [pp. 648 - 652]Back Matter