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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Main Author: Warnier, Jean-Pierre
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007
Series:African social studies series ; v. 17.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central