The intestines of the state : youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / / Nicolas Argenti.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 362 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history
- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era
- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets
- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery
- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering
- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority
- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance
- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth
- Histories of the present, histories of the future.