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

ISBN-13: 9781785339844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 328 str.

Koen Stroeken

Opis

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...