Title The pot-king : the body and technologies of power / by Jean-Pierre Warnier.

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 325 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	African social studies series ; v. 17
	African social studies series ; v. 17.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-309) and indexes.
Contents	The human flesh -- The subjects as containers -- The skin-citizens -- "Smoke must be kept inside the house" -- The gifts of the dead monarchs -- The closure of the country -- The king's three bodies -- The royal excrement -- Unbreakable vital piggy-banks -- De-sexualized bachelors -- Theoretical questions, in bodily/material cultures.
Summary	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.
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Subject	Mankon (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
	Mankon (African people)
	Rites and ceremonies.
	Power (Social sciences) -- Cameroon -- Mankon.
	Power (Social sciences)
	Cameroon -- Mankon.
	Mankon (Cameroon) -- Kings and rulers.
	Mankon (Cameroon) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Warnier, Jean-Pierre. Pot-king. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 (DLC) 2007039902
ISBN	9789047422709 (electronic book)
	9047422708 (electronic book)
	9789004152175 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	9004152172 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No.	10.1163/ej.9789004152175.i-325

Title The pot-king : the body and technologies of power / by Jean-Pierre Warnier.

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