Encounter, Transformation and Identity: Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands, 1891-2000

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Ian Fowler, Verkijika G. Fanso
Berghahn Books, 2009 - 253 pagina's

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, this volume contains key maps from early German sources and other original cartographical materials.

 

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Oral Traditions and Administrative Identities
16
Epitome of Extracts from Hermann Detzner Im Lande Des DjuDju
50
Early Colonial
69
Anthropological and Historical Perspectives 9335
93
A Glimpse into
110
The Latent Struggle for Identity and Autonomy in the Southern
141
Fetishism Gender and Power in Transitional Forest
151
Commemorating Women in a Patrilineal Society
169
The Challenge of Multisited Ethnography
184
The Eucharistic Meal
199
Public
212
Extracts on the Widekum and the Tikar taken from Notes
231
Index
248
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Over de auteur (2009)

Ian 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. Verkijika G. Fanso is Professor of History at the University of Yaoundé I. He has published widely on African political history and Cameroon history and culture. He has played a key role in promoting the culture of Cameroon and supporting the Cameroon archives at Buea and is President of the Association of Friends of Archives and Antiquities in Cameroon.

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