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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Integration and Conflict Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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