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Cameroon Grassfields Civilization.
This book brings and blends together a dozen scholarly articles published by the author since the 1970s. It sketches two different yet related stories: first, that of one of the most ancient and prestigious African civilizations, the antiquity and sophistication of which are becoming more and more p...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Langaa RPCIG,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Table of contents; Introduction: 1. Forty years of research in the making; Part I. The historical background; 2. The history of the peopling of Western Cameroon and the genesis of its landscapes; 3. A Nineteenth-century Ruhr in Central Africa (with Ian Fowler); 4. The linguistic situation and the history of the Grassfields; Part II. The Grassfields regional economy; 5. Of pigs and people (with Karin Luke); 6. Trade guns as a source in history; 7. Slave trading without slave raiding.
- 8. The transfer of young people's working ethos from the Grassfields to the Atlantic CoastPart III. Grassfields sacred kingship; 9. Matter for territorialization. An inroad into a contemporary African kingdom; 10. Containers, surfaces, apertures and contents; 11. Rebellion, defection and the position of male cadets: a neglected category (with an afterword); 12. The Mankon palace; General conclusion: 13. New directions for research; Bibliography; Table of illustrations; Back Cover.