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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Methodology and History in Anthropology SeriesPublisher: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781785339851
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medicinal RuleDDC classification:
  • 306.20967
LOC classification:
  • GN492.55 .S77 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Medicinal Rule -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language -- Abbreviations of Referenced Works -- Introduction: Endogenous Kingship -- Part I - Divinatory Societies -- Chapter 1 - The Forest Within -- Chapter 2 - Beyond Turner's Watershed Division -- Part II - Medicinal Rule -- Chapter 3 - A Sukuma Chief on Medicine -- Chapter 4 - Endogenizing Vansina's Equatorial Tradition -- Chapter 5 - From Cult to Dynasty: Nilotic and Niger-Congo Extensions -- Illustration Gallery -- Chapter 6 - Magic and the Sole Mode of Production -- Chapter 7 - Tio Shrines of the Forest Maker -- Part III - The Ceremonial State -- Chapter 8 - Kuba, Kongo and Buganda 'Miracles': Reversions in Transition -- Chapter 9 - From Divinatory to Ceremonial State: Narrative Proof from Rwanda -- Conclusion - Reversible Traditions -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Medicinal Rule -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language -- Abbreviations of Referenced Works -- Introduction: Endogenous Kingship -- Part I - Divinatory Societies -- Chapter 1 - The Forest Within -- Chapter 2 - Beyond Turner's Watershed Division -- Part II - Medicinal Rule -- Chapter 3 - A Sukuma Chief on Medicine -- Chapter 4 - Endogenizing Vansina's Equatorial Tradition -- Chapter 5 - From Cult to Dynasty: Nilotic and Niger-Congo Extensions -- Illustration Gallery -- Chapter 6 - Magic and the Sole Mode of Production -- Chapter 7 - Tio Shrines of the Forest Maker -- Part III - The Ceremonial State -- Chapter 8 - Kuba, Kongo and Buganda 'Miracles': Reversions in Transition -- Chapter 9 - From Divinatory to Ceremonial State: Narrative Proof from Rwanda -- Conclusion - Reversible Traditions -- References -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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