Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge of the Particular

1. Introduction 2. Texts and Contexts 3. Translation, Exoticism, Banality 4. Tradition and Trade 5. Complexity, Astonishment and Power: The Personhood of Objects 6. Nkondi: Minkisi to Kill People Swiftly 7. Composition and Powers of an Nkondi Called Mbola 8. Life and Death: Objecthood of Persons 9. Lutete's Chiefs 10. Reflections and Extensions Appendix