LEADER 05061oam 22006254a 450 001 9910465036903321 005 20220108030025.0 010 $a9956-792-25-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000180090 035 $a(EBL)1732191 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001399335 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11845217 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001399335 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11450593 035 $a(PQKB)10894136 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1732191 035 $a(PPN)198668597 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1732191 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10891816 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL663288 035 $a(OCoLC)889263049 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_72389 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000180090 100 $a20150129e20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTiger in an African palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformation 210 1$cLangaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group,$aBamenda, North West Region, Cameroon :$d2014 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-32006-3 311 $a9956-791-70-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Copyright acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 - Sisters, wives, wards and daughters. A transformational analysis of the political organization of the Tiv and their neighbours; Part I The Tiv; The background; The segmentary lineage model of the Tiv; A theoretical digression; Marriage by exchange; Kinship and clanship; Witchcraft and cults; Kinship terminology; Conclusion; Part II The transformations; Exchange marriage systems; The Mambila; Intermediary systems: Kona and Wiya; Marriage lordship: Bamileke, Bangwa, Bamum 327 $aConclusionsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 2 - ALLIANCE AND ETHNICITY. Aspects of an Adamawan regional system; Adamawa as a region; The Chamba ethnicity and identity; Mapeo; Kinship terminology; Clanship; Marriage regulations in Mapeo; Motives for marriage and marriage patterns in Mapeo; Marriage as alliance?; The Chamba, their neighbours and a central Adamawan regional system; Conclusions; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 3 - 'AFRICAN ETHNOGENESIS'. Limits to the comparability of ethnic phenomena; Ethnicity and comparative anthropology; Why ethnicity is difficult to define 327 $aHow ethnicity just grew and grewThe nominal objection; The reificatory objection; The derogatory objection; The situational objection; Subjective and objective ethnicity; Nationalism and the autonomization of ethnicity; Chamba ethnogenesis; African ethnogenesis; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 4 - THE PERSON, ETHNICITY AND THE PROBLEM OF 'IDENTITY' IN WEST AFRICA; Argument; The 'traditional' West African model: a synthesis; Identity, ethnicity and the person; Modernity and identity; Bali-Nyonga identity: whence Chamba-ness?; Bali-Nyonga: narrating modernity; Conclusion; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 327 $aChapter 5 - 'CROSSED DESTINIES' - The entangled histories of West African ethnic and national identitiesComplex resemblances; Crossed destinies; Invention - narration - imagination: how sameness inhabits the world; Entanglement: the contrapuntal characteristics of ethnic narratives; Entangled identities and crossed destinies; Conclusion; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 6 - ETHNIC PERVASION. Covering ethnicity? Or, ethnicity as coverage?; The self-evidence of ethnic terms; A many-sided project; In and out of the whale; Chapter 7 - TIGER IN AN AFRICAN PALACE; Present problems 327 $aTiger in an African palaceTreasures and translations; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 8 - COSMOPOLITAN NATIONS, NATIONAL COSMOPOLITANS; Conviviality begins at home: a ceremony; Encapsulation and identity - history; Cosmopolitan sleights; Peripheral citizenship in practice; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Back cover 330 $aTiger in an African palace collects eight essays about kinship and belonging that Richard Fardon wrote to complement his monographs on West Africa. The essays extend those book-length descriptions by pursuing their wider implications for theory in social anthropology: exploring the relationship between comparison and historical reconstruction, and questioning the fit between personal, ethnic and cosmopolitan identities in contemporary West African nations. In an Introduction written specially for this Langaa collection, Richard Fardon retraces the career-long development of his preoccupation w 606 $aEthnology$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00916106 606 $aEthnology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aEthnology. 676 $a306 700 $aFardon$b Richard$0660428 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465036903321 996 $aTiger in an african palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformation$92232060 997 $aUNINA