Koen Stroeken

Broschiertes Buch

Medicinal Rule

A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

Beschreibung

This book is the first to introduce medicine as the forgotten model of rule in central and east Africa This book introduces medicinal rule to replace the obsolete trope of divine kingship. It breaks with the old scholarly division of politics and religion This book is a rare comparative exercise revisiting classics of anthropology and African history, thus taking into account data about 40 African cultural groups This book uses anthropology to develop and apply new methodologies in the study of African history

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781800732148
• ISBN-10: 1800732147
• Artikelnr.: 62110015