Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Methodology and history in anthropology v. 35
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Stroeken, Koen Medicinal rule
Parallel Title:
Print version Stroeken, Koen, author Medicinal rule
Keywords:
Traditional medicine
;
Chiefdoms
;
Traditional medicine
;
Chiefdoms
;
Gesundheit
;
Volksmedizin
;
Sozialanthropologie
;
Traditionale Kultur
;
Führung
;
Kult
;
Africa, Central
;
Africa, Central
;
Africa, Central Politics and government
;
Africa, Central Kings and rulers
;
Ostafrika
;
Zentralafrika
;
Zentralafrika
;
Ostafrika
;
Häuptling
;
Sakralkönigtum
;
Ethnohistorie
;
Sozialanthropologie
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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