TY - BOOK AU - Stroeken,Koen TI - Medicinal rule: a historical anthropology of kingship in east and central Africa SN - 9781785339844 (hardback : alk. paper) U1 - 306.2967 STR PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Berghahn KW - Chiefdoms KW - Africa, Central KW - Traditional medicine N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [298]-305) and index; Part I: Divinatory societies -- The forest within -- Beyond Turner's watershed division -- Part II: Medicinal rule -- A Sukuma chief on medicine -- Endogenizing Vansina's equatorial tradition -- From cult to dynasty: Nilotic and Niger-Congo extensions -- Magic and the sole mode of production -- Tio shrines of the forest master -- Part III: The ceremonial state -- Kuba, Kongo and Buganda 'miracles': reversions in transition -- From divinatory to ceremonial state: narrative proof from Rwanda -- Conclusions: Reversible transitions ER -