02867nam 2200517 450 991079839000332120170919162447.01-84545-215-11-78238-877-X10.1515/9781782388777(CKB)3710000000641313(EBL)4501272(MiAaPQ)EBC4501272(DE-B1597)637195(DE-B1597)9781782388777(EXLCZ)99371000000064131320160426h20062006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierLela in Bali history through ceremony in Cameroon /Richard FardonNew York, [New York] ;Oxford, [England] :Berghahn Books,2006.©20061 online resource (176 p.)Cameroon studies ;Volume 7Description based upon print version of record.Includes bibliographical references and index.LELA IN BALI; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1. Lela: Past Present, Present Past; CHAPTER 2. Lela in 1908: The Photographic Record; CHAPTER 3. Lela: The Texts, 1890s to 1960s; Chapter 4. Lela: Incorporation, Ascendancy and the Means of Violence; CHAPTER 5. Lela in the Grassfields and the 'Graffi' in Lela: Or, More is More; CHAPTER 6. Lela Precedents: Beyond and Before theGrassfields; CHAPTER 7. Fast Forward: From Adamawa to Late Post-Colonial Cameroon; References; IndexLela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial Cameroonians, Lela has become one of the most important of Cameroonian festivals and a crucial marker of identity within the state. Richard Fardon’s recuperation of two hundred years of history is an essential contribution not only to Cameroonian studies but also to the broader understanding of the evolution of African cultures.Cameroon studies ;Volume 7.Bali (African people)Social life and customsBali (African people)Rites and ceremoniesCameroonSocial life and customsBali (African people)Social life and customs.Bali (African people)Rites and ceremonies.305.896/36Fardon Richard660428MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798390003321Lela in Bali3710766UNINA