The pot-king: the body and technologies of power
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1. Verfasser: Warnier, Jean-Pierre (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden Brill 2007
Schriftenreihe:African social studies series v. 17
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-309) and indexes
The human flesh -- The subjects as containers -- The skin-citizens -- "Smoke must be kept inside the house" -- The gifts of the dead monarchs -- The closure of the country -- The king's three bodies -- The royal excrement -- Unbreakable vital piggy-banks -- De-sexualized bachelors -- Theoretical questions, in bodily/material cultures
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 325 pages)
ISBN:9047422708
9789047422709

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