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Encounter, transformation and identity : peoples of the western Cameroon borderlands, 1891-2000 / edited by Ian Fowler and Verikijika G. Fanso ; with a preface by Martin and Dorothy Njeuma.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cameroon studies ; v. 8.
- Cameroon studies ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Cameroon--South-West Province.
- Ethnology.
- First contact (Anthropology)--Cameroon--South-West Province.
- First contact (Anthropology).
- Ethnicity--Cameroon--South-West Province.
- Ethnicity.
- Oral tradition--Cameroon--South-West Province.
- Oral tradition.
- South-West Province (Cameroon)--Colonization.
- South-West Province (Cameroon).
- South-West Province (Cameroon)--History--Sources.
- South-West Province (Cameroon)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. The contributors examine a range of issues relating to identity, including first encounters and conflict as well as global networking, trans-national families, enculturation, gender, resistance, and death. In addition to a number of very striking illustrations of ethnographic and material culture,
- 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; Bibiography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612627927
- 9781282627925
- 1282627929
- 9781845459345
- 1845459342
- OCLC:
- 645100564
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