Format:
ix, 316 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
ISBN:
9781785339844
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1785339842
Series Statement:
Methodology and history in anthropology volume 35
Content:
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 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. -- Back cover
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 298-305, Register
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Part I: Divinatory societies
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The forest within
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Beyond Turner's watershed division
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Part II: Medicinal rule
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A Sukuma chief on medicine
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Endogenizing Vansina's equatorial tradition
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From cult to dynasty : Nilotic and Niger-Congo extensions
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Magic and the sole mode of production
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Tio shrines of the forest master
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Part III: The ceremonial state
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Kuba, Kongo and Buganda 'miracles' : reversions in transition
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From divinatory to ceremonial state : narrative proof from Rwanda
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Conclusions: Reversible transitions
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781785339851
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Stroeken, Koen Medicinal rule New York : Berghahn Books, 2018
Additional Edition:
Online version Stroeken, Koen, author Medicinal rule New York : Berghahn Books, 2018
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Zentralafrika
;
Ostafrika
;
Häuptling
;
Sakralkönigtum
;
Ethnohistorie
;
Sozialanthropologie
