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Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
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| Veröffentlichung: |
September 2021
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| Genre: |
Soziologie |
| ISBN: |
9781800732148 |
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9781800732148 |
| Verlag: |
Berghahn Books |
| Einband: |
Kartoniert |
| Sprache: |
English
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| Dimensionen: |
H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D 18 mm |
| Gewicht: |
480 gr |
| Seiten: |
330 |
| Zus. Info: |
Paperback |
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| Inhalt: |
| 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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