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Régner au Cameroun : le roi-pot / Jean-Pierre Warnier.
LIBRA DT571.M37 W3714 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warnier, Jean-Pierre.
- Series:
- Recherches internationales (Editions Karthala)
- Recherches internationales
- Standardized Title:
- Pot-king. French
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mankon (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.
- Mankon (African people).
- Human body--Symbolic aspects.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Mankon (Cameroon)--Kings and rulers.
- Mankon (Cameroon).
- Power (Social sciences)--Cameroon--Mankon.
- Human body--Symbolic aspects--Cameroon--Mankon.
- Human body.
- Mankon (Cameroon)--Social life and customs.
- Cameroon--Mankon.
- Physical Description:
- 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Karthala, [2009]
- Contents:
- Introduction. La chair humaine
- Sujets-récipients
- et citoyens-peaux
- "La fumée reste dans la maison"
- Les dons des monarques défunts
- La clôture du pays
- Les trois corps du roi
- Les excréments royaux
- Tirelires vitales incassables
- Célibataires asexués
- Conclusion. L'invention d'une royauté moderne.
- Notes:
- Originally published in English as: The pot-king: the body and technologies of power. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
- Includes glossary.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-326) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9782811101763
- 2811101764
- OCLC:
- 318871585
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