Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa - Couverture souple

Stroeken, Koen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1800732147 ISBN 13 : 9781800732148

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2021

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1800732147
• ISBN 13: 9781800732148
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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