Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine - and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer's despotic administrator...
Medicinal RuleREADERSHIP: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly,Undergraduate
ISBN-10: 1785339842
ISBN-13: 9781785339844
Author:
Stroeken, Koen /
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication date: September 2018
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 25 mm
Weight: 598 g
Pages: 326 pages, 14 illustrations pages
Title: Medicinal Rule