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Régner au Cameroun : le roi-pot / Jean-Pierre Warnier.

Title
Régner au Cameroun : le roi-pot / Jean-Pierre Warnier.
Author
Warnier, Jean-Pierre
Publication
Paris : Karthala, c2009.

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Description
338 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Recherches internationales
Uniform Title
  • Pot-king. French
  • Recherches internationales (Editions Karthala)
Alternative Title
Pot-king.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1959-2003
  • Mankon (African people) > Rites and ceremonies
  • Power (Social sciences) > Cameroon > Mankon
  • Human body > Symbolic aspects > Cameroon > Mankon
  • Mankon (Cameroon) > Kings and rulers
  • Mankon (Cameroon) > Social life and customs
  • Cameroon Political and Ethnological History 20th-21st Century
Note
  • Published in English as The pot-king: the body and technologies of power, in Leiden/Boston in 2007.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-326) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction. La chair humaine -- Sujets-récipients-- -- --et citoyens-peaux -- "La fumée reste dans la maison" -- Les dons des monarques défunts -- La clôture du pays -- Les trois corps du roi -- Les excréments royaux -- Tirelires vitales incassables -- Célibataires asexués -- Conclusion. L'invention d'une royauté moderne.
ISBN
  • 9782811101763
  • 2811101764
OCLC
  • 318871585
  • SCSB-10846489
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library