Medicinal Rule

Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine - and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer's despotic administrator...

Bazat pe o comparatie regionala bazata pe etnografie si pe o reexaminare critica a monografiilor clasice pe aproximativ patruzeci de grupuri culturale, acest volum face o afirmatie arestanta ca in Africa ecuatoriala, modelul de regula a fost medicina - si nu (asa cum europenii au presupus de mult) administratorul despotic al colonizatorului ...