Download or read book The Pot-King written by Jean-Pierre Warnier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.