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The Pot-King (The Body and Technologies of Power)
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Product Details
Author:
Jean-Pierre Warnier
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
326
Publisher:
Brill (November 13, 2007)
Imprint:
Brill
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9789004152175
ISBN-10:
9004152172
Weight:
19.2oz
Dimensions:
6.3" x 9.45"
File:
TWO RIVERS-PERSEUS-Metadata_Only_Perseus_Distribution_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260202163321-20260203.xml
Folder:
TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$97.00
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
Series:
African Social Studies Series
As low as:
$92.15
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
H
Pub Discount:
35
Overview
The king of Mankon, in the western highlands of Cameroon, is an agricultural engineer by training, a businessman, and a prominent politician on the national stage. He partakes in the “return of the kings” in the forefront of an African public space. This book analyses the principles of the sacred kingship which lie at the core of the king’s different roles. While showing that the king’s body acts as a container of bodily substances transformed into unifying ancestral life-essence by appropriate means, and bestowed upon its subjects, it develops an innovative approach to bodily and material cultures as an essential component of the technologies of power. In so doing, it departs significantly from previous approaches to sacred kingship.
