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

by Koen Stroeken

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800732147
• ISBN13: 9781800732148
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"