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African Modernities and Mobilities : An Historical Ethnography of Kom, Cameroon, C. 1800-2008 /
In this book Walter Gam Nkwi documents the complexities and nuances embedded in African modernities and mobilities which have been overlooked in historical discourses in Africa and Cameroon. Using an ethnographic historical approach and drawing on the intricacies of what it has meant to be and belon...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2015
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by Jean-Pierre Warnier
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction : theory and progress of Kfaang
- Background and methodology
- Kom in global communication ecology, c.1800-c.2008b
- Roads, mobility and Kfaang, c.1928-1998
- Motor vehicle (Afue'm A Kfaang)
- Church, Christianity and Kfaang in Kom (Ndo Fiyini Ni Iwo Fiyini Kfaang)
- School, schooling and literacy (ndogwali kfaang) 1928 to c.1980
- Letters and letter writers (Ghelii-Do Gwa-Ali Kfaang)
- Plantations, coast (Itiini Kfaang), Bushfallers and returned migrants
- Ex-service men, (Ghiili-I-Wong-I-Kfaang) 1914-1946
- Elite women (Ghii'ki Kfaang) : women and newness in colonial and post-colonial Kom, Cameroon since c.1930s
- From foot messengers to text messengers c.1800-1998 : change and continuity of Kfaang men
- Mobility and encounters with different worlds
- Conclusion : Kom identity as work in progress.