Medicinal Rule by Koen Stroeken
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...-
Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology
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The Politics of Egalitarianism
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Religion in English Everyday Life
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Holistic Anthropology
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Taboo, Truth and Religion
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Categories of Self
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Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization
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Categories and Classifications
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Marcel Mauss
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Hunting the Gatherers
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Expeditionary Anthropology
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Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
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Anyone
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Regimes of Ignorance
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Who are 'We'?
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Search After Method
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Engaging Evil
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Chicanery
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Navigating Terrains of War
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A History of Oxford Anthropology
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Difficult Folk?
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Ways of Knowing
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Anthropology and Travel Writing, 19th–21st Century
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Up Close and Personal
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An Ethnographic Chiefdom
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The Social Origins of Thought
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The Problem of Context
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Radcliffe-Brown
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‘I am Here’, Abraham Said
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The Spirit of Matter
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The Ethics of Knowledge Creation
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Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent
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Total Atheism
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Anthropologists in a Wider World
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Correcting the Record
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The Scope of Anthropology
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An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology
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The Life of Property
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Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa
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Returning Life
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Two Against the Tide
“Koen Stroeken has developed an argument that is subtle and profound… [He] covers immense territory historically and geographically, but without sacrificing rigorous empiricism, deep ethnography, or conceptual sophistication” • Journal of Anthropological Research
“Admirably clearly written… [the volume exhibits] high scholarship, methodological ingenuity, and sound use of history.” • David Parkin, University of Oxford
Koen Stroeken is Associate Professor in Africanist anthropology at Ghent University (CARAM) and the coordinator of a long-term academic exchange with Mzumbe University, Tanzania. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Sukuma healers, his publications – including the monograph Moral Power (2010, Berghahn) – mainly deal with African cosmologies and the sensory materiality of magic.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781785339844 |
| ISBN 10 | 1785339842 |
| Title | Medicinal Rule |
| Author | Koen Stroeken |
| Series | Methodology And History In Anthropology Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2018-09-07 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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