Medicinal Rule
A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings - and found them. The resulting misunderstandings have lasted until this day. Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa the model of rule has been medicine - and not the colonizer's despotic administrator, the missionary's divine king, or Vansina's big man. In a wide area populated by speakers of Bantu and other languages of the Niger-Congo cluster, both cult and dynastic clan draw on the fertili…
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- ISBN: 978-1-80073-214-8
- EAN: 9781800732148
- Produktnummer: 36181952
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H15.1 cm x B22.8 cm x D2.3 cm 468 g
- Gewicht: 468
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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