Encounter, Transformation, and Identity : : Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands, 1891-2000 / / ed. by Ian Fowler, Verkijika G. Fanso.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ardener, Edwin,; Bowie, Fiona,; Chilver, Sally,; Endeley, Joyce,; Fanso, Verkijika G.,; Fowler, Ian,; Geschiere, Peter,; Ifeka, Caroline,; Lado, Ludovic,; Lyonga, Nalova,; Ndobegang, Michael Mbapndah,; Niger-Thomas, Margaret,; Njeuma, Dorothy,; Njeuma, Martin,; Röschenthaler, Ute,
• HerausgeberIn: Fanso, Verkijika G.,; Fowler, Ian,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Cameroon Studies ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)

Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West Province of Cameroon and the Nigerian borderlands, this volume presents critical and analytical approaches to the production of ethnic, political, religious, and gendered identities in the region. The contributors examine a range of issues relating to identity, including first encounters and conflict as well as global networking, trans-national families, enculturation, gender, resistance, and death. In addition to a number of very striking illustrations of ethnographic and material culture, this volume contains key maps from early German sources and other original cartographical materials.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Figures -- Foreword: Shirley Ardener: A Personal Note -- Preface: Shirley Ardener: Fortifying Cameroon Studies -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- CHAPTER 1 Voicing Identity -- CHAPTER 2 Oral Traditions and Administrative Identities -- CHAPTER 3 Epitome of Extracts from Hermann Detzner, Im Lande Des Dju-Dju -- CHAPTER 4 Von Gravenreuth and Buea as a Site of History: Early Colonial Violence on Mount Cameroon -- CHAPTER 5 Azi since Conrau: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives -- CHAPTER 6 The Submerged History of Nsanakang: A Glimpse into an Anglo-German Encounter -- CHAPTER 7 The Latent Struggle for Identity and Autonomy in the Southern Cameroons, 1916–1946 -- CHAPTER 8 Titi Ikoli Revisited: Fetishism, Gender and Power in Transitional Forest Economies of the Upper Cross River Borderlands, 1920s–1990s -- CHAPTER 9 Commemorating Women in a Patrilineal Society -- CHAPTER 10 The Challenge of Multi-sited Ethnography -- CHAPTER 11 The Politics of Religious Essentialism: The Eucharistic Meal and Identity Discourses in Postcolonial African Catholicism -- CHAPTER 12 Making a Difference in North-South Relationships: Public and Private Spheres and the Role of the Human Seed in Networking for Local Development -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index