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portada Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa (Methodology & History in Anthropology) (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2018
Language
English
Pages
326
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781785339844
Edition No.
1
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Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa (Methodology & History in Anthropology) (in English)

Koen Stroeken (Author) · Berghahn Books · Hardcover

Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa (Methodology & History in Anthropology) (in English) - Koen Stroeken

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Synopsis "Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa (Methodology & History in Anthropology) (in English)"

As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings - and found them. The resulting misunderstandings last 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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