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Medicinal rule : a historical anthropology of kingship in east and central Africa / Koen Stroeken.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Berghahn c2018Description: ix, 316 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781785339844 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.2967 STR
Contents:
Part I: Divinatory societies -- The forest within -- Beyond Turner's watershed division -- Part II: Medicinal rule -- A Sukuma chief on medicine -- Endogenizing Vansina's equatorial tradition -- From cult to dynasty: Nilotic and Niger-Congo extensions -- Magic and the sole mode of production -- Tio shrines of the forest master -- Part III: The ceremonial state -- Kuba, Kongo and Buganda 'miracles': reversions in transition -- From divinatory to ceremonial state: narrative proof from Rwanda -- Conclusions: Reversible transitions.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [298]-305) and index.

Part I: Divinatory societies -- The forest within -- Beyond Turner's watershed division -- Part II: Medicinal rule -- A Sukuma chief on medicine -- Endogenizing Vansina's equatorial tradition -- From cult to dynasty: Nilotic and Niger-Congo extensions -- Magic and the sole mode of production -- Tio shrines of the forest master -- Part III: The ceremonial state -- Kuba, Kongo and Buganda 'miracles': reversions in transition -- From divinatory to ceremonial state: narrative proof from Rwanda -- Conclusions: Reversible transitions.

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