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Medicinal Rule

- A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

About Medicinal Rule

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...

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781785339844
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 328
  • Published:
  • September 6, 2018
  • Dimensions:
  • 236x160x25 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 598 g.
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Description of Medicinal Rule

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...

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