Masks and staffs : identity politics in the Cameroon Grassfields /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pelican, Michaela (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, [2015]
Colección:Integration and conflict studies ; v. 11.
Temas:
Ethnicity > Cameroon.
Ethnic conflict > Cameroon.
Ethnic relations > Political aspects.
Ethnicité > Cameroun.
Conflits ethniques > Cameroun.
Relations interethniques > Aspect politique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Ethnic conflict
Ethnic relations
Ethnic relations > Political aspects
Ethnicity
Hausa
Identität
Ländlicher Raum
Volk
Stamm > Ethnologie
Konfliktregelung
Minderheitenfrage
Ethnische Beziehungen
Bororo > Fulbe
Cameroon > Ethnic relations.
Cameroon
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Setting the scene : cultural difference and political rivalry in times of transition
  • The power of the Fon : Nchaney political history
  • From pastoral society to Indigenous people : Mbororo identity politics
  • A shift to economic competition? : Farmer-herder conflict and cattle theft in the Misaje area
  • On being Hausa : consolidation of the Hausa ethnic category in the Grassfields
  • Grassfielder by birth, Muslim by choice : religious and ethnic conversion
  • The murder of Mr X : legal pluralism and conflict management in the early 2000s.

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