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Medicinal Rule

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Medicinal Rule : A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    CONTENTS
    List of Figures and Tables
    Acknowledgements
    Note on Language
    List of Abbreviations of Referenced Works
    Introduction. Endogenous Kingship
    Part I. Divinatory Societies
    Chapter 1. The Forest Within
    Chapter 2. Beyond Turner's Watershed Division
    Part II. Medicinal Rule
    Chapter 3. A Sukuma Chief on Medicine
    Chapter 4. Endogenizing Vansina's Equatorial Tradition
    Chapter 5. From Cult to Dynasty: Nilotic and Niger-Congo Extensions
    Chapter 6. Magic and the Sole Mode of Production
    Chapter 7. Tio Shrines of the Forest Master
    Part III. The Ceremonial State
    Chapter 8. Kuba, Kongo and Buganda 'Miracles': Reversions in Transition
    Chapter 9. From Divinatory to Ceremonial State: Narrative Proof from Rwanda
    Conclusion. Reversible Transitions
    References
    Index
  • Contributor: Stroeken, Koen [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2018]
  • Published in: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 35
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (328 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781785339851
  • ISBN: 9781785339851
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: LB 49465 : Afrika insgesamt
  • Keywords: Chiefdoms Africa, Central ; Chiefdoms ; Comparative government ; Kings and rulers ; Medicine, African Traditional ; Political Systems ; Politics and government ; Traditional medicine Africa, Central ; Traditional medicine ; Führung ; Gesundheit ; Kult ; Volksmedizin ; Sozialanthropologie ; Traditionale Kultur ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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  • Footnote: In English
  • 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
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