Encounter, transformation and identity : peoples of the western Cameroon borderlands, 1891-2000 /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Fowler, Ian, Fanso, Verkijika G., Njeuma, M. Z., 1940-2010
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Series:Cameroon studies ; v. 8.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Cameroon > South-West Province.
First contact (Anthropology) > Cameroon > South-West Province.
Ethnicity > Cameroon > South-West Province.
Oral tradition > Cameroon > South-West Province.
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Colonization
Ethnicity
Ethnology
First contact (Anthropology)
Manners and customs
Oral tradition
South-West Province (Cameroon) > Colonization.
South-West Province (Cameroon) > History > Sources.
South-West Province (Cameroon) > Social life and customs.
Sud-Ouest (Cameroun : Province) > Colonisation.
Sud-Ouest (Cameroun : Province) > Histoire > Sources.
Sud-Ouest (Cameroun : Province) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Cameroon > South-West Province
History
Sources
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title page-Encounter, Transformation and Identity; Contents; Maps; Figures; Foreword; Preface; 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; Chapter 5-Azi since Conrau; Chapter 6-The Submerged History of Nsanakang; Chapter 7-The Latent Struggle for Identity and Autonomy in the Southern Cameroons, 1916-1946; Chapter 8-Titi Ikoli Revisited.
  • Chapter 9-Commemorating Women in a Patrilineal SocietyChapter 10-The Challenge of Multi-sited Ethnography; Chapter 11-The Politics of Religious Essentialism; Chapter 12-Making a Difference in North-South Relationships; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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