02815nam 2200613 450 991081168320332120170918150411.01-78238-729-310.1515/9781782387299(CKB)3710000000449033(EBL)1741602(SSID)ssj0001517520(PQKBManifestationID)12566801(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001517520(PQKBWorkID)11504177(PQKB)11431459(MiAaPQ)EBC1741602(DE-B1597)636141(DE-B1597)9781782387299(EXLCZ)99371000000044903320150730h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMasks and staffs identity politics in the Cameroon Grassfields /Michaela PelicanNew York ;Oxford, [England] :Berghahn Books,2015.©20151 online resource (258 p.)Integration and Conflict Studies ;Volume 11Description based upon print version of record.1-78533-514-6 1-78238-728-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Masks and Staffs; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Transliteration; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Setting the Scene; 2 The Power of the Fon; 3 From Pastoral Society to Indigenous People; 4 A Shift to Economic Competition?; 5 On Being Hausa; 6 Grassfielder by Birth, Muslim by Choice; 7 The Murder of Mr X; Epilogue; Glossary; References; Index The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups - Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa - provide a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of identity politics and interethnic relations. In the midst of the political liberalization of Cameroon in the late 1990s and 2000s, local responses to political and legal changes took the form of a series of performative and discursive expressions of ethnicity. Confrontational encounters stimulated by economic and political rivalry, as well as socially integrative processes, transformed collective self-understanding in CameroonIntegration and conflict studies ;Volume 11.EthnicityCameroonEthnic conflictCameroonEthnic relationsPolitical aspectsCameroonEthnic relationsEthnicityEthnic conflictEthnic relationsPolitical aspects.967.11Pelican Michaela1708576MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811683203321Masks and staffs4097698UNINA