Brill The Pot-King: The Body and Technologies of Power: 17 (African Social Studies Series, 17)

Product Description The king of Mankon (Cameroon) acts as a container of ancestral substances he distributes to his people. This book shows how the exercise of power in a contemporary African kingdom is based on the implementation of bodily and material technologies. About the Author J.-P. Warnier, Ph.D. (Anthropology, 1975) University of Pennsylvania, is Emeritus Professor in Paris. His work concerns material culture and Cameroon. He has published (with J.-F. Bayart, eds.) Matière à politique: le pouvoir, les choses et les corps. CERI, 2004).