Book ID: CBB817734400

Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa (2018)

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Stroeken, Koen (Author)


Berghahn Books


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 328
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Webel, Mari K.
Jonathan R. Walz
Abdoulaye Kane
Scarfone, Marianna
Dilger, Hansjörg
Cagle, Hubert Glenn, III
Concepts
Medicine
Medicine, traditional
Colonialism
Health care
Medicine, herbal
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Early modern
20th century, late
17th century
Places
East Africa
Africa
Mexico
India
Libya
Indian Ocean
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