The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam by Dyt, Kathryn

The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam

The Nature of Kingship is an innovative exploration of dynastic power and the environment in nineteenth-century Vietnam....
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Author: Kathryn Dyt
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Language: English
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The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam by Dyt, Kathryn

The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam

€156,31

The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam

€156,31
Author: Kathryn Dyt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The Nature of Kingship is an innovative exploration of dynastic power and the environment in nineteenth-century Vietnam. It offers important insights into Vietnamese kingship by delving into the intricate workings of the Nguyễn court and its interactions with the natural world. Weaving together a rich array of sources including official histories, royal poetry, astrological manuals, geography texts, and provincial gazetteers, Kathryn Dyt vividly demonstrates how Nguyễn governance and court hierarchies were intertwined with a powerful, agentive, and emotional "weather-world"--a world inhabited by ecological actors such as rain, wind, land, and skies.

While previous narratives have often faulted Nguyễn rulers for being aloof and detached from their surroundings, this new study considers how Nguyễn dynastic rule was in fact highly responsive to its setting and sensitive to the environment. It shows that Nguyễn kings were not static, inert individuals, cut off from the world, but rather were intensely engaged with their environment and its cosmological and spiritual dimensions. Placing kings in the thick of lived experience, in a land perceived to be alive and responsive to human incantations, prayers, and pleas, this account demonstrates how Nguyễn rulers consolidated their authority through displays of superior weather knowledge and modes of affective rule rooted in reciprocal emotional resonance with the weather-world. The king's exemplary affective responsiveness to the weather was central to his preeminence and it was a means by which the court validated its power within Vietnam's extensive social field. Exploring kingship from phenomenological perspectives, this wide-reaching study addresses diverse forms of court engagement with the environment, including the observation of astronomical and meteorological phenomena, divination practices, rainmaking rituals, travel through the kingdom, the writing of environmental histories, and imperial poetry.

Author: Kathryn Dyt
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 12/31/2024
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780824899806

About the Author
Kathryn Dyt is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at SOAS, University of London.

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