Stroeken, Koen (Author)
As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings – and found them. The resulting misunderstandings have lasted 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.
...MoreReview David Schoenbrun (2020) Review of unknown publication. International Journal of African Historical Studies (pp. 131-133).
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Bruchhausen, Walter;
Roelcke, Volker;
(2002)
Categorizing “African Medicine”: The German Discourse on East African Healing Practices, 1885-1918
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Article
Marianna Scarfone;
(2016)
Italian colonial psychiatry: outlines of a discipline, and practical achievements in Libya and the Horn of Africa
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Book
Vázquez García, Francisco;
(2009)
La invención del racismo: nacimiento de la biopolítica en España, 1600--1940
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Thesis
Graboyes, Melissa;
(2010)
Surveying the “Pathological Museum”: A History of Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940--1965
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Article
Mari K. Webel;
(2019)
Trypanosomiasis, Tropical Medicine, and the Practices of Inter-Colonial Research at Lake Victoria, 1902-07
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Thesis
Webel, Mari K.;
(2012)
Borderlands of Research: Medicine, Empire, and Sleeping Sickness in East Africa, 1902--1914
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Chapter
Jonathan R. Walz;
(2016)
Zigua Medicine, between Mountains and Ocean: People, Performances, and Objects in Healing Motion
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Book
Crozier, Anna;
(2007)
Practising Colonial Medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa
(/isis/citation/CBB000830503/)
Thesis
Cagle, Hubert Glenn, III;
(2011)
Dead Reckonings: Disease and the Natural Sciences in Portuguese Asia and the Atlantic, 1450--1650
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Book
Hansjörg Dilger;
Abdoulaye Kane;
Stacey Ann Langwick;
(2012)
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing
(/isis/citation/CBB612583452/)
Article
Barros, Juanita De;
(2007)
Dispensers, Obeah and Quackery: Medical Rivalries in Post-Slavery British Guiana
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Article
Tiwari, Lalit;
Pande, P. C.;
(2005)
Traditional Himalayan System of Medicine and Its Plants in Ayurvedic Texts: With Reference to Suśruta Saṁhitā
(/isis/citation/CBB000741847/)
Article
Geissler, P. Wenzel;
Prince, Ruth J.;
(2009)
Active Compounds and Atoms of Society: Plants, Bodies, Minds and Cultures in the Work of Kenyan Ethnobotanical Knowledge
(/isis/citation/CBB000953574/)
Article
Peeters, Evert;
(2010)
Questioning the Medical Fringe: The “Cultural Doxy” of Catholic Hydropathy in Belgium, 1890--1914
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Article
Shin, Dongwon;
(2008)
How Four Different Political Systems Have Shaped the Modernization of Traditional Korean Medicine between 1900 and 1960
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Chapter
Woidich, Manfred;
(2007)
'Āxir iṭṭibb innāṛ. Texte zur Volksmedizin aus ilBašandi in der Oase Dakhla
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Thesis
Greene, William Alexander;
(2005)
Extracting Tradition: Nature, Culture, and Power in the Ethnobotany of Belize
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Book
Kunow, Marianna Appel;
(2003)
Maya Medicine: Traditional Healing in Yucatan
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Chapter
Stanton, J.;
(2000)
Listening to the Ga: Cicely Williams' Discovery of Kwashiorkor on the Gold Coast
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Article
Robles, Laura Catalina Díaz;
Sandoval, Luciano Oropeza;
(2007)
Las parteras de Guadalajara (México) en el siglo XIX: el despojo de su arte
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