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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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78533-984-4
- EAN: 9781785339844
- Produktnummer: 26206037
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 330 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.2 cm 632 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 632
Über den Autor
Koen Stroeken is Associate Professor in Africanist anthropology at Ghent University (CARAM) and the coordinator of a long-term academic exchange with Mzumbe University, Tanzania. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Sukuma healers, his publications - including the monograph Moral Power (2010, Berghahn) - mainly deal with African cosmologies and the sensory materiality of magic.
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