Cargando…

Lela in Bali : history through ceremony in Cameroon /

"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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fardon, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.
Colección:Cameroon studies ; v. 7.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Lela : past present, present past
  • 2. Lela in 1908 : the photographic record
  • 3. Lela : the texts, 1890s to 1960s
  • 4. Lela : incorporation, ascendancy and the means of violence
  • 5. Lela in the Grassfields and the 'Graffi' in Lela : or, more is more
  • 6. Lela precedents : beyond and before the Grassfields
  • 7. Fast forward : from Adamawa to late post-colonial Cameroon.