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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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