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

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

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