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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.
J.-P. Warnier, Ph.D. (Anthropology, 1975) University of Pennsylvania, is Emeritus Professor in Paris. His work concerns material culture and Cameroon. He has published (with J.-F. Bayart, eds.) Matière à politique : le pouvoir, les choses et les corps. CERI, 2004).
Chapter 1. The human fleshChapter 2. The subjects as containersChapter 3. The skin-citizensChapter 4. “Smoke must be kept in inside the house”Chapter 5. The gifts of the dead monarchsChapter 6. The closure of the countryChapter 7. The king’s three bodiesChapter 8. The royal excrementChapter 9. Unbreakable vital piggy-banksChapter 10. De-sexualized bachelorsChapter 11. Theoretical question in bodily/material cultures
