The post is great for political worldbuilding, but the REFERENCE LINKS.
Unusual Governments to Take Inspiration From by Eleanor Konik over at SFWA
Oh, hey, here are the reference links for posterity, but I do recommend reading the post too. and Eleanor Konik's own webpage seems interesting!
Brisch, Nicole Maria, ed. Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond. University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminars, no. 4. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2008. https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/symposia/religion-and-power-divine-kingship-ancient-world-and-beyond.
Carneiro, Robert L., Leonid E. Grinin, and Andrey V. Kotrotayev, eds. Chiefdoms: Yesterday and Today. New York: Eliot Werner Publications, 2017. http://doi.org:10.2307/j.ctvqc6hq0
Ehret, Christopher. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Second edition. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2705
Starrett, Vincent (1920) “An Iberian Jeanne d’Arc,” The Open Court: Vol. 1920: Iss. 2, Article 1. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/ocj/vol1920/iss2/1
Daniels, Robert E. “Kalenjin Age-Set Coordination.” 25th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Washington, D. C., 1982. https://www.danielsanthropology.com/papers/ageset2/KalenjinAgeSetCoordination.html. This entry has been cross-posted to Dreamwidth (
comments). Comments are welcome on either post.
Oh, hey, here are the reference links for posterity, but I do recommend reading the post too. and Eleanor Konik's own webpage seems interesting!
Brisch, Nicole Maria, ed. Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond. University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminars, no. 4. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2008. https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/symposia/religion-and-power-divine-kingship-ancient-world-and-beyond.
Carneiro, Robert L., Leonid E. Grinin, and Andrey V. Kotrotayev, eds. Chiefdoms: Yesterday and Today. New York: Eliot Werner Publications, 2017. http://doi.org:10.2307/j.ctvqc6hq0
Ehret, Christopher. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Second edition. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2705
Starrett, Vincent (1920) “An Iberian Jeanne d’Arc,” The Open Court: Vol. 1920: Iss. 2, Article 1. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/ocj/vol1920/iss2/1
Daniels, Robert E. “Kalenjin Age-Set Coordination.” 25th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Washington, D. C., 1982. https://www.danielsanthropology.com/papers/ageset2/KalenjinAgeSetCoordination.html. This entry has been cross-posted to Dreamwidth (
comments). Comments are welcome on either post.