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The Pot-King
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The Body and Technologies of Power
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Artikel-Nr:
9789004152175
Veröffentl:
2007
Erscheinungsdatum:
13.11.2007
Seiten:
325
Autor:
Jean-Pierre Warnier
Gewicht:
545 g
Format:
241x159x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
J.-P. Warnier, Ph.D. (Anthropology, 1975) University of Pennsylvania, is Emeritus Professor in Paris. His work concerns material culture and Cameroon. He has published (with J.-F. Bayart, eds.) Matière à politique: le pouvoir, les choses et les corps. CERI, 2004).
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.
Chapter 1. The human flesh Chapter 2. The subjects as containers Chapter 3. The skin-citizens Chapter 4. "Smoke must be kept in inside the house" Chapter 5. The gifts of the dead monarchs Chapter 6. The closure of the country Chapter 7. The king's three bodies Chapter 8. The royal excrement Chapter 9. Unbreakable vital piggy-banks Chapter 10. De-sexualized bachelors Chapter 11. Theoretical question in bodily/material cultures