The pot-king : the body and technologies of power /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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Colección: | African social studies series ;
v. 17. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The human flesh
- The subjects as containers
- The skin-citizens
- "Smoke must be kept inside the house"
- The gifts of the dead monarchs
- The closure of the country
- The king's three bodies
- The royal excrement
- Unbreakable vital piggy-banks
- De-sexualized bachelors
- Theoretical questions, in bodily/material cultures.