Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
New York ; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2018]
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Monographie, Elektronische Ressource
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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 fertility shrine, rainmaking charm and drum they inherit
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Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: | Koen Stroeken |
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Stroeken, Koen |
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Veröffentlichung: | New York ; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2018] |
Medientyp: | Monographie |
Datenträgertyp: | Elektronische Ressource |
Umfang: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
ISBN: | 9781785339851 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781785339851 |
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