The Pot-King (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004152175)

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.

Author: Jean-Pierre Warnier
ISBN-10: 9004152172
ISBN-13: 9789004152175
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/13/2007
Pages: 326
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.46w x 0.74d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 54