The pot-king : the body and technologies of power /
The king of Mankon (Cameroon) acts as a container of ancestral substances he distributes to his people. This book shows how the exercise of power in a contemporary African kingdom is based on the implementation of bodily and material technologies.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007
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Series: | African social studies series ;
v. 17. |
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |