Medicinal rule : a historical anthropology of kingship in east and central Africa /

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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 last until this day. Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stroeken, Koen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Series:Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 35.
Subjects:
Chiefdoms > Africa, Central.
Traditional medicine > Africa, Central.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Chiefdoms
Kings and rulers
Politics and government
Traditional medicine
Africa, Central > Politics and government.
Africa, Central > Kings and rulers.
Afrique centrale > Politique et gouvernement.
Central Africa
Kingship, Rulership, African History, East Africa, Central Africa.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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