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Medicinal Rule
- A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
Engelsk Paperback
Medicinal Rule
- A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
Engelsk Paperback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
328
ISBN-13:
9781800732148
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1800732147
Udg. Dato:
17 sep 2021
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
151mm
Forlag:
Berghahn Books
Oplagsdato:
17 sep 2021
Forfatter(e):
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