Medicinal Rule : : A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa / / Koen Stroeken.
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 group...
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Stroeken, Koen, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Medicinal Rule : A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa / Koen Stroeken. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (328 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 35 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) Chiefdoms Africa, Central. Chiefdoms. Comparative government. Kings and rulers. Medicine, African Traditional. Political Systems. Politics and government. Traditional medicine Africa, Central. Traditional medicine. (DE-588)4018776-7 (DE-627)104288965 (DE-576)20892650X Führung gnd (DE-588)4020754-7 (DE-627)104658827 (DE-576)208934650 Gesundheit gnd (DE-588)4033535-5 (DE-627)104297913 (DE-576)209002573 Kult gnd (DE-588)4078940-8 (DE-627)104552360 (DE-576)209210524 Volksmedizin gnd (DE-588)4129436-1 (DE-627)105709891 (DE-576)209610506 Sozialanthropologie gnd (DE-588)4323955-9 (DE-627)128436905 (DE-576)211249572 Traditionale Kultur gnd SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Kingship, Rulership, African History, East Africa, Central Africa. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110998115 ZDB-23-BHBO print 9781785339844 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785339851?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785339851 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785339851/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- 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 |
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