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.
Über den Autor
nIan Fowler is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology. He has carried out fieldwork in Cameroon over a thirty year period. He is a general editor of the Cameroon Studies Series and has published on material culture, art, ethnicity, history, and politics in Cameroon.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
nList of maps and figures
nNotes on contributors
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nForeword. Shirley Ardener: A personal note
nVerkijika G. Fanso
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nPreface. Shirley Ardener: Fortifying Cameroon Studies
nMartin Njeuma and Dorothy Njeuma
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nIntroduction
nIan Fowler
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nChapter 1. Oral traditions and administrative identities
nEdwin Ardener
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nChapter 2. Epitome of extracts from Hermann Detzner Im Lande des Dju-Dju Berlin: August Scherl, 1923
nSally Chilver
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nChapter 3. Von Gravenreuth and Buea as a site of history: early colonial violence on Mount Cameroon
nPeter Geschiere
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nChapter 4. Azi since Conrau: Anthropological and historical perspectives
nMichael Mbapndah Ndobegang and Fiona Bowie
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nChapter 5. The submerged history of Nsanakang: A glimpse into an Anglo-German encounter
nUte Röschenthaler
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nChapter 6. The latent struggle for identity and autonomy in the southern Cameroons, 1916-1946
nVerkijika G. Fanso
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nChapter 7. Titi Ikoli revisited: Fetishism, gender and power in transitional forest economies of the Upper Cross River borderlands, 1920s-1990s
nCaroline Ifeka
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nChapter 8. Commemorating women in a patrilineal society
nMargaret Niger-Thomas
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nChapter 9. The challenge of multi-sited ethnography
nFiona Bowie
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nChapter 10. The essentialist temptation: Eucharistic meal and identity in postcolonial African Catholicism
nLado Ludovic
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nChapter 11. Making a difference in north-south relationships: Public and private spheres and the role of the human seed in networking for local development
nJoyce Endeley and Nalova Lyonga
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nAppendix: Extracts on the Widekum and the Tikar taken from notes on the Bamenda grassfields
nSally Chilver and Phyllis Kaberry
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nCombined references
nIndex
Klappentext
nBringing 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, this volume contains key maps from early German sources and other original cartographical materials.
