LEADER 02815nam 2200613 450 001 9910811683203321 005 20170918150411.0 010 $a1-78238-729-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781782387299 035 $a(CKB)3710000000449033 035 $a(EBL)1741602 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001517520 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12566801 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001517520 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11504177 035 $a(PQKB)11431459 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1741602 035 $a(DE-B1597)636141 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781782387299 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000449033 100 $a20150730h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMasks and staffs $eidentity politics in the Cameroon Grassfields /$fMichaela Pelican 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford, [England] :$cBerghahn Books,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 225 1 $aIntegration and Conflict Studies ;$vVolume 11 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78533-514-6 311 $a1-78238-728-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMasks 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 330 $a The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups - Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa - provide a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of identity politics and interethnic relations. In the midst of the political liberalization of Cameroon in the late 1990s and 2000s, local responses to political and legal changes took the form of a series of performative and discursive expressions of ethnicity. Confrontational encounters stimulated by economic and political rivalry, as well as socially integrative processes, transformed collective self-understanding in Cameroon 410 0$aIntegration and conflict studies ;$vVolume 11. 606 $aEthnicity$zCameroon 606 $aEthnic conflict$zCameroon 606 $aEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects 607 $aCameroon$xEthnic relations 615 0$aEthnicity 615 0$aEthnic conflict 615 0$aEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a967.11 700 $aPelican$b Michaela$01708576 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811683203321 996 $aMasks and staffs$94097698 997 $aUNINA