Masks and Staffs : : Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields / / Michaela Pelican.
The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups – Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa – provide a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of identity politics and interethnic relations. In the midst of the political liberalization of Cameroon in the late 1990s and 2000s,...
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Pelican, Michaela, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Masks and Staffs : Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields / Michaela Pelican. New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (260 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Integration and Conflict Studies ; 11 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Setting the Scene: Cultural Difference and Political Rivalry in Times of Transition -- 2 The Power of the Fon Nchaney Political History -- 3 From Pastoral Society to Indigenous People: Mbororo Identity Politics -- 4 A Shift to Economic Competition? Farmer–Herder Conflict and Cattle Theft in the Misaje Area -- 5 On Being Hausa: Consolidation of the Hausa Ethnic Category in the Grassfields -- 6 Grassfielder by Birth, Muslim by Choice: Religious and Ethnic Conversion -- 7 The Murder of Mr X: Legal Pluralism and Conflict Management in the Early 2000s -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups – Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa – provide a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of identity politics and interethnic relations. In the midst of the political liberalization of Cameroon in the late 1990s and 2000s, local responses to political and legal changes took the form of a series of performative and discursive expressions of ethnicity. Confrontational encounters stimulated by economic and political rivalry, as well as socially integrative processes, transformed collective self-understanding in Cameroon in conjunction with recent global discourses on human, minority, and indigenous rights. The book provides a vital contribution to the study of ethnicity, conflict, and social change in the anthropology of Africa. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022) Ethnic conflict Cameroon. Ethnic relations Political aspects. Ethnicity Cameroon. (DE-588)4023698-5 (DE-627)106302167 (DE-576)208951008 Hausa gnd (DE-588)4026482-8 (DE-627)106288199 (DE-576)208966544 Identität gnd (DE-588)4034026-0 (DE-627)106254863 (DE-576)209004657 Ländlicher Raum gnd (DE-588)4063790-6 (DE-627)104106603 (DE-576)209150475 Volk gnd (DE-588)4138634-6 (DE-627)105641227 (DE-576)20968772X Stamm Ethnologie gnd (DE-588)4164958-8 (DE-627)105443484 (DE-576)20989217X Konfliktregelung gnd (DE-588)4169999-3 (DE-627)104392975 (DE-576)209926821 Minderheitenfrage gnd (DE-588)4176973-9 (DE-627)105352160 (DE-576)209974257 Ethnische Beziehungen gnd (DE-588)4225814-5 (DE-627)104976349 (DE-576)210309229 Bororo Fulbe gnd SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110998238 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782387299?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782387299 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782387299/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Setting the Scene: Cultural Difference and Political Rivalry in Times of Transition -- 2 The Power of the Fon Nchaney Political History -- 3 From Pastoral Society to Indigenous People: Mbororo Identity Politics -- 4 A Shift to Economic Competition? Farmer–Herder Conflict and Cattle Theft in the Misaje Area -- 5 On Being Hausa: Consolidation of the Hausa Ethnic Category in the Grassfields -- 6 Grassfielder by Birth, Muslim by Choice: Religious and Ethnic Conversion -- 7 The Murder of Mr X: Legal Pluralism and Conflict Management in the Early 2000s -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
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