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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798390303321

Titolo

African crossroads : intersections between history and anthropology in Cameroon / / edited by Ian Fowler and David Zeitlyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

1-57181-926-6

1-57181-859-6

1-78238-878-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Cameroon studies ; ; Volume 2

Disciplina

967.11

Soggetti

Ethnology - Cameroon

Cameroon History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

AFRICAN CROSSROADS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE. The Person, Ethnicity and the Problem of 'Identity' in West Africa; CHAPTER TWO. Political Relationships on the Eastern Marches of Adamawa in the Late Nineteenth Century; CHAPTER THREE. Mythic Transformation and Historical Continuity; CHAPTER FOUR. Imperialisms at the Century's End; CHAPTER FIVE. Nso' Military Organisation and Warfare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; CHAPTER SIX. Rebellion, Defection and the Position of Male Cadets; CHAPTER SEVEN. Catholicism & Nso' Traditional Beliefs

CHAPTER EIGHT. Pursue to AttainCHAPTER NINE. Political Dress; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

Cameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This collection of essays by eminent historians and anthropologists summarizes three generations of research in Cameroon that began with the collaboration of Phyllis Kaberry and E. M. Chilver soon after the Second World War and continues to this day. The idea for this book arose from a concern to recognize the continuing influence of E. M. Chilver on a wide variety of social, historical, political



and economic studies. The result is a volume with a broad historical scope yet one that also focuses on major contemporary theoretical issues such as the meaning and construction of ethnic identities and the anthropological study of historical processes. For more information on this title and related publications, go to http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Chilver/index.html