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MEDICINAL RULE

Methodology and History in Anthropology

Series Editors:

David Parkin, Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford

David Gellner, Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford

Volume 1

Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute

Edited by Wendy James and N.J. Allen

Volume 2

Franz Baerman Steiner: Selected Writings

Volume I: Taboo, Truth and Religion. Franz B. Steiner

Edited by Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon

Volume 3

Franz Baerman Steiner. Selected Writings

Volume II: Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilisation. Franz B. Steiner

Edited by Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon

Volume 4

The Problem of Context

Edited by Roy Dilley

Volume 5

Religion in English Everyday Life

By Timothy Jenkins

Volume 6

Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s1930s

Edited by Michael OHanlon and Robert L. Welsh

Volume 7

Anthropologists in a Wider World: Essays on Field Research

Edited by Paul Dresch, Wendy James, and David Parkin

Volume 8

Categories and Classifications: Maussian Reflections on the Social

By N.J. Allen

Volume 9

Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition

By Robert Parkin

Volume 10

Categories of Self: Louis Dumonts Theory of the Individual

By Andr Celtel

Volume 11

Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies and Effects

By Michael Jackson

Volume 12

An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology: Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance

By Louis Dumont

Volume 13

Navigating Terrains of War: Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau

By Henrik E. Vigh

Volume 14

The Politics of Egalitarianism: Theory and Practice

Edited by Jacqueline Solway

Volume 15

A History of Oxford Anthropology

Edited by Peter Rivire

Volume 16

Holistic Anthropology: Emergence and Convergence

Edited by David Parkin and Stanley Ulijaszek

Volume 17

Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches

Edited by David Berliner and Ramon Sarr

Volume 18

Ways of Knowing: New Approaches in the Anthropology of Knowledge and Learning

Edited by Mark Harris

Volume 19

Difficult Folk? A Political History of Social Anthropology

By David Mills

Volume 20

Human Nature as Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification

Edited by Nigel Rapport

Volume 21

The Life of Property: House, Family and Inheritance in Barn, South-West France

By Timothy Jenkins

Volume 22

Out of the Study and Into the Field: Ethnographic Theory and Practice in French Anthropology

Edited by Robert Parkin and Anne de Sales

Volume 23

The Scope of Anthropology: Maurice Godeliers Work in Context

Edited by Laurent Dousset and Serge Tcherkzoff

Volume 24

Anyone: The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

By Nigel Rapport

Volume 25

Up Close and Personal: On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge

Edited by Cris Shore and Susanna Trnka

Volume 26

Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology:

A Critical Synthesis

Edited by Roy Ellen, Stephen J. Lycett, and Sarah E. Johns

Volume 27

Durkheim in Dialogue: A Centenary Celebration of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Edited by Sondra L. Hausner

Volume 28

Extraordinary Encounters: Authenticity and the Interview

Edited by Katherine Smith, James Staples, and Nigel Rapport

Volume 29

Regimes of Ignorance: Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge

Edited by Roy Dilley and Thomas G. Kirsch

Volume 30

Human Origins: Contributions from Social Anthropology

Edited by Camilla Power, Morna Finnegan and Hilary Callan

Volume 31

The Ethics of Knowledge Creation: Transactions, Relations and Persons

Edited by Lisette Josephides and Anne Sigfrid Grnseth

Volume 32

Returning Life: Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro

By Knut Christian Myhre

Volume 33

Expeditionary Anthropology: Teamwork, Travel and the Science of Man

Edited by Martin Thomas and Amanda Harris

Volume 34

Who Are We? Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology

Edited by Liana Chua and Nayanika Mathur

Volume 35

Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

Koen Stroeken

MEDICINAL RULE

A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

Koen Stroeken

First published in 2018 by

Berghahn Books

www.berghahnbooks.com

2018, 2021 Koen Stroeken
First paperback edition published in 2021

All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Stroeken, Koen, author.

Title: Medicinal rule : a historical anthropology of kingship in east and central Africa / Koen Stroeken.

Description: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018. | Series: Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 35 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018008442 (print) | LCCN 2018023456 (ebook) | ISBN 9781785339851 (ebook) | ISBN 9781785339844 (hardback : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: ChiefdomsAfrica, Central. | Traditional medicineAfrica, Central. | Africa, CentralPolitics and government. | Africa, CentralKings and rulers.

Classification: LCC GN492.55 (ebook) | LCC GN492.55 .S77 2018 (print) | DDC 306.2/0967dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018008442

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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