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Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa (Methodology & History in Anthropology, 35, Band 35) - Softcover

Buch 13 von 22: Methodology & History in Anthropology

Stroeken, Koen

 
9781800732148: Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa (Methodology & History in Anthropology, 35, Band 35)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1800732147 ISBN 13: 9781800732148
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Über die Autorin bzw. den 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.

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1800732147
ISBN 13 
9781800732148
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
330
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