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Medicinal Rule - A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,908

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Medicinal Rule - A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa (Hardcover): Koen Stroeken

Medicinal Rule - A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa (Hardcover)

Koen Stroeken

Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology

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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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Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Methodology & History in Anthropology
Release date:	September 2018
Authors:	Koen Stroeken
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-1-78533-984-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > African history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78533-984-2
Barcode:	9781785339844