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Medicinal rule : a historical anthropology of kingship in east and central Africa
- Title
- Medicinal rule : a historical anthropology of kingship in east and central Africa / Koen Stroeken.
- Author
- Stroeken, Koen
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- ix, 316 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings - and found them. The resulting misunderstandings last 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.
- Series Statement
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 35
- Uniform Title
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 35.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I: Divinatory societies -- The forest within -- Beyond Turner's watershed division -- Part II: Medicinal rule -- A Sukuma chief on medicine -- Endogenizing Vansina's equatorial tradition -- From cult to dynasty: Nilotic and Niger-Congo extensions -- Magic and the sole mode of production -- Tio shrines of the forest master -- Part III: The ceremonial state -- Kuba, Kongo and Buganda 'miracles': reversions in transition -- From divinatory to ceremonial state: narrative proof from Rwanda -- Conclusions: Reversible transitions.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-521
- ISBN
- 9781785339844
- 1785339842
- LCCN
- 2018008442
- OCLC
- 1023489409
- Author
- Stroeken, Koen, author.
- Title
- Medicinal rule : a historical anthropology of kingship in east and central Africa / Koen Stroeken.
- Publisher
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 35Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 35.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-521