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Berghahn Books Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa: 35 (Methodology & History in Anthropology, 35)

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Product Description 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. Review "Koen Stroeken has developed an argument that is subtle and profound... [He] covers immense territory historically and geographically, but without sacrificing rigorous empiricism, deep ethnography, or conceptual sophistication." - Journal of Anthropological Research "Admirably clearly written... [the volume exhibits] high scholarship, methodological ingenuity, and sound use of history." - David Parkin, University of Oxford About the Author 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 (2010, Berghahn) – mainly deal with African cosmologies and the sensory materiality of magic.

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Brand: Berghahn Books
Format: library
ASIN: 1785339842
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 07 September 2018
Listed Since: 14 February 2018

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