Masks and staffs : identity politics in the Cameroon Grassfields / / Michaela Pelican

• Autore: Pelican Michaela
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Disciplina: 967.11
• Soggetto topico: Ethnicity - Cameroon; Ethnic conflict - Cameroon; Ethnic relations - Political aspects
• Soggetto geografico: Cameroon Ethnic relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Masks and staffs
• ISBN: 1-78238-729-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811683203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Integration and conflict studies ; ; Volume 11.