The intestines of the state [[electronic resource] ] : youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / / Nicolas Argenti |
Autore | Argenti Nicolas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/36 |
Soggetto topico |
Oku (African people) - History
Oku (African people) - Politics and government Oku (African people) - Social life and customs Slavery - Cameroon - North-West Province - History Marginality, Social - Cameroon - North-West Province - History Young men - Cameroon - North-West Province - Attitudes Young men - Cameroon - North-West Province - Psychology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-226-02613-2
1-281-95905-7 9786611959050 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history -- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454185503321 |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 | ||
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The intestines of the state [[electronic resource] ] : youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / / Nicolas Argenti |
Autore | Argenti Nicolas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/36 |
Soggetto topico |
Oku (African people) - History
Oku (African people) - Politics and government Oku (African people) - Social life and customs Slavery - Cameroon - North-West Province - History Marginality, Social - Cameroon - North-West Province - History Young men - Cameroon - North-West Province - Attitudes Young men - Cameroon - North-West Province - Psychology |
Soggetto non controllato | cameroon grassfields, youth, africa, violence, marginalization, slavery, forced labor, colonialism, exploitation, revolt, revolution, rebellion, activism, oppression, ethnography, fieldwork, oku, performance, masked dance, masculinity, masquerade, nonfiction, marginality, german imperialism, empire, mortuary rites, ritual, ceremony, history, folklore, authority, memorial, embodiment |
ISBN |
0-226-02613-2
1-281-95905-7 9786611959050 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history -- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782460403321 |
Argenti Nicolas
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The intestines of the state : youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / / Nicolas Argenti |
Autore | Argenti Nicolas |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/36 |
Soggetto topico |
Oku (African people) - History
Oku (African people) - Politics and government Oku (African people) - Social life and customs Slavery - Cameroon - North-West Province - History Marginality, Social - Cameroon - North-West Province - History Young men - Cameroon - North-West Province - Attitudes Young men - Cameroon - North-West Province - Psychology |
ISBN |
0-226-02613-2
1-281-95905-7 9786611959050 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history -- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814132403321 |
Argenti Nicolas
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lela in Bali : history through ceremony in Cameroon / / Richard Fardon |
Autore | Fardon Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/36 |
Collana | Cameroon studies |
Soggetto topico |
Bali (African people) - Social life and customs
Bali (African people) - Rites and ceremonies |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-84545-215-1
1-78238-877-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910494723003321 |
Fardon Richard
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New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lela in Bali : history through ceremony in Cameroon / / Richard Fardon |
Autore | Fardon Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/36 |
Collana | Cameroon studies |
Soggetto topico |
Bali (African people) - Social life and customs
Bali (African people) - Rites and ceremonies |
ISBN |
1-84545-215-1
1-78238-877-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798390003321 |
Fardon Richard
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New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lela in Bali : history through ceremony in Cameroon / / Richard Fardon |
Autore | Fardon Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/36 |
Collana | Cameroon studies |
Soggetto topico |
Bali (African people) - Social life and customs
Bali (African people) - Rites and ceremonies |
ISBN |
1-84545-215-1
1-78238-877-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822384403321 |
Fardon Richard
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New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The pot-king [[electronic resource] ] : the body and technologies of power / / by Jean-Pierre Warnier |
Autore | Warnier Jean-Pierre |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/36 |
Collana | African social studies series |
Soggetto topico |
Mankon (African people) - Rites and ceremonies
Power (Social sciences) - Cameroon - Mankon |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-92609-4
9786611926090 90-474-2270-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary material / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter One. The human flesh / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Two. The subjects as containers / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Three. The skin-citizens / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Four. \'Smoke must be kept inside the house\' / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Five. The gifts of the dead monarchs / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Six. The closure of the country / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Seven. The king’s three bodies / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Eight. The royal excrement / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Nine. Unbreakable vital piggy-banks / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Ten. De-sexualised bachelors / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Eleven. Theoretical questions, in bodily/material cultures / J.-P. Warnier -- Bibliography / J.-P. Warnier -- The mankon language and its transcription / J.-P. Warnier -- Mankon glossary / J.-P. Warnier -- Indices / J.-P. Warnier. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453588903321 |
Warnier Jean-Pierre
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The pot-king [[electronic resource] ] : the body and technologies of power / / by Jean-Pierre Warnier |
Autore | Warnier Jean-Pierre |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/36 |
Collana | African social studies series |
Soggetto topico |
Mankon (African people) - Rites and ceremonies
Power (Social sciences) - Cameroon - Mankon |
ISBN |
1-281-92609-4
9786611926090 90-474-2270-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary material / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter One. The human flesh / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Two. The subjects as containers / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Three. The skin-citizens / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Four. \'Smoke must be kept inside the house\' / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Five. The gifts of the dead monarchs / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Six. The closure of the country / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Seven. The king’s three bodies / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Eight. The royal excrement / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Nine. Unbreakable vital piggy-banks / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Ten. De-sexualised bachelors / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Eleven. Theoretical questions, in bodily/material cultures / J.-P. Warnier -- Bibliography / J.-P. Warnier -- The mankon language and its transcription / J.-P. Warnier -- Mankon glossary / J.-P. Warnier -- Indices / J.-P. Warnier. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782311303321 |
Warnier Jean-Pierre
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The pot-king : the body and technologies of power / / by Jean-Pierre Warnier |
Autore | Warnier Jean-Pierre |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/36 |
Collana | African social studies series |
Soggetto topico |
Mankon (African people) - Rites and ceremonies
Power (Social sciences) - Cameroon - Mankon |
ISBN |
1-281-92609-4
9786611926090 90-474-2270-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary material / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter One. The human flesh / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Two. The subjects as containers / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Three. The skin-citizens / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Four. \'Smoke must be kept inside the house\' / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Five. The gifts of the dead monarchs / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Six. The closure of the country / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Seven. The king’s three bodies / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Eight. The royal excrement / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Nine. Unbreakable vital piggy-banks / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Ten. De-sexualised bachelors / J.-P. Warnier -- Chapter Eleven. Theoretical questions, in bodily/material cultures / J.-P. Warnier -- Bibliography / J.-P. Warnier -- The mankon language and its transcription / J.-P. Warnier -- Mankon glossary / J.-P. Warnier -- Indices / J.-P. Warnier. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817880603321 |
Warnier Jean-Pierre
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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