Koen Stroeken

Gebundenes Buch

Medicinal Rule

A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

Beschreibung

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 (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer's despotic administrator...

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

• Methodology & History in Anthropology
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781785339844
• ISBN-10: 1785339842
• Artikelnr.: 51307633