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Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Reihe: Methodology & History in Anthropology

Stroeken

Medicinal Rule

A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-214-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Reihe: Methodology & History in Anthropology

ISBN: 978-1-80073-214-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

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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Autoren/Hrsg.

Stroeken, Koen

Fachgebiete

Weitere Infos & Material

Tables and figures

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

Stroeken, Koen
Koen Stroeken is Associate Professor in Africanist anthropology at Ghent University (CARAM) and the coordinator of a long-term academic exchange with Mzumbe University, Tanzania. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Sukuma healers, his publications – including the monograph Moral Power (2010, Berghahn) – mainly deal with African cosmologies and the sensory materiality of magic.

Koen Stroeken is Associate Professor in Africanist anthropology at Ghent University (CARAM) and the coordinator of a long-term academic exchange with Mzumbe University, Tanzania. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Sukuma healers, his publications – including the monograph Moral Power (2010, Berghahn) – mainly deal with African cosmologies and the sensory materiality of magic.

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