Koen Stroeken

Medicinal Rule

A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer's despotic administrator...

Produktdetails

• Methodology & History in Anthropology
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781785339844
• ISBN-10: 1785339842
• Artikelnr.: 51307633

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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