The pot-king : the body and technologies of power /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Warnier, Jean-Pierre
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Series:African social studies series ; v. 17.
Subjects:
Mankon (African people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Power (Social sciences) > Cameroon > Mankon.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) > Cameroun > Mankon.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Kings and rulers
Manners and customs
Power (Social sciences)
Sakralkönigtum
Ahnenkult
Körpererfahrung
Körperbild
Sachkultur
Körper
König
Herrschaft.
König.
Sozialstruktur.
Politische Struktur.
Mankon (Cameroon) > Kings and rulers.
Mankon (Cameroon) > Social life and customs.
Cameroon > Mankon
Kamerun > Nordwest
Mankon
Kamerun
Mankon (Kamerun)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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