Encounter, Transformation, and Identity : : Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands, 1891-2000 /

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

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....

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (254 p.)
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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

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