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Medicinal Rule - A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,850
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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
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LSN: 1-78533-984-2
Barcode: 9781785339844

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