Medicinal Rule
A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
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Word Count
79,000 words, Guess
Page Count
316 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL35533608M
- ISBN-139781785339844
- OCLC Control Number1023489409
- Library of Congress Control Number2018008442
Classifications
- LCCGN492.55 .S77 2018
Description
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.
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