Lela in Bali : : History through Ceremony in Cameroon /

Lela in Bali : : History through Ceremony in Cameroon / / Richard Fardon.

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Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Fardon, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Cameroon Studies ; 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Map
  • 1. Lela: Past Present, Present Past
  • Lela in the Early Post-Colony
  • Bali Nyonga: A Thumbnail History
  • 2. Lela in 1908: The Photographic Record
  • Lela and Voma in Bali
  • The Ethnologist and the Missionaries
  • Ankermann and the Missionaries Photographed: The Second Photographer
  • The Texts and the Photographs
  • An Inventory of the Photographic Record of the 1908 Lela
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Lela: The Texts, 1890s to 1960s
  • Missionaries’Version 1903 to 1913
  • The Ethnologist’s Version 1907 to 1908
  • The Soldier’s and Trader’s Versions 1889 to 1906
  • Interlude: The Bali Axis Unravels
  • The Anthropologist and the Historian: A 1960s Version
  • 4. Lela: Incorporation, Ascendancy and the Means of Violence
  • The Ba’ni before the Germans
  • The Apogee of Germano–Bali Majesty: The 1905 Paramountcy
  • Illustrations
  • 5. Lela in the Grassfields and the ‘Graffi’ in Lela: Or,More is More
  • The Importance of Origins
  • More is More
  • Lela Adopted in the Grassfields
  • Lela and Voma in the Bali Kingdoms
  • 6. Lela Precedents: Beyond and Before the Grassfields
  • ‘Spear Washing’ in the Benue Chamba Chiefdoms: Flags, Gowns and Horses
  • Adamawan Elements in Lela: Death, Killing and Commemoration
  • 7. Fast Forward: From Adamawa to Late Post-Colonial Cameroon
  • References
  • Published References
  • Unpublished References
  • Index

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