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 |
| Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007
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| Series: | African social studies series ;
v. 17. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 325 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-309) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789047422709 9047422708 1281926094 9781281926098 9786611926090 6611926097 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
