Medicinal rule : a historical anthropology of kingship in east and central Africa /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2018.
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Colección: | Methodology and history in anthropology ;
v. 35. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.