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The forge and the funeral : the Smith in Kapsiki/higi culture / / Walter E. A. Van Beek
| The forge and the funeral : the Smith in Kapsiki/higi culture / / Walter E. A. Van Beek |
| Autore | Van Beek Walter E. A. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
| Disciplina | 967.11 |
| Collana | African History and Culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Kamwe (African people) - Cameroon - Social life and customs
Kamwe (African people) - Nigeria - Social life and customs Blacksmiths - Mandara Mountains (Cameroon and Nigeria) |
| ISBN | 1-60917-453-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Language and Orthography -- Chapter 1. Smith, Skill, and the Senses -- Chapter 2. An African Enigma -- Chapter 3. The Internal Other -- Chapter 4. Hot Iron and Cool Pots -- Chapter 5. Yellow Wildness -- Chapter 6. Of Whistling Birds and Talking Crabs -- Chapter 7. Smith and Ritual -- Chapter 8. Masters of Healing -- Chapter 9. A Sense of Justice -- Chapter 10. The Smell of Death -- Chapter 11. Music and the Silence of the Smith -- Chapter 12. The Smith and the Power of Things -- Notes -- Glossary of Kapsiki Terms -- Glossary of Kapsiki Plant Names -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797745603321 |
Van Beek Walter E. A.
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| East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The forge and the funeral : the Smith in Kapsiki/higi culture / / Walter E. A. Van Beek
| The forge and the funeral : the Smith in Kapsiki/higi culture / / Walter E. A. Van Beek |
| Autore | Van Beek Walter E. A. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
| Disciplina | 967.11 |
| Collana | African History and Culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Kamwe (African people) - Cameroon - Social life and customs
Kamwe (African people) - Nigeria - Social life and customs Blacksmiths - Mandara Mountains (Cameroon and Nigeria) |
| ISBN | 1-60917-453-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Language and Orthography -- Chapter 1. Smith, Skill, and the Senses -- Chapter 2. An African Enigma -- Chapter 3. The Internal Other -- Chapter 4. Hot Iron and Cool Pots -- Chapter 5. Yellow Wildness -- Chapter 6. Of Whistling Birds and Talking Crabs -- Chapter 7. Smith and Ritual -- Chapter 8. Masters of Healing -- Chapter 9. A Sense of Justice -- Chapter 10. The Smell of Death -- Chapter 11. Music and the Silence of the Smith -- Chapter 12. The Smith and the Power of Things -- Notes -- Glossary of Kapsiki Terms -- Glossary of Kapsiki Plant Names -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827440403321 |
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Van Beek Walter E. A.
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| East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs : Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grasslands / / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg
| Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs : Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grasslands / / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg |
| Autore | Feldman-Savelsberg Pamela <1958-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Soggetto topico |
Fertilite humaine - Cameroun - Maham
Femmes - Cameroun - Sante et hygiene Population Manners and customs Human reproduction Fertility, Human Ethnology Women - psychology Anthropology, Cultural Infertility, Female - psychology Infertility, Female - ethnology Human reproduction - Cameroon - Bangangte (Kingdom) Fertility, Human - Cameroon - Bangangte (Kingdom) Women, Ngangte - Health and hygiene Women, Ngangte - Psychology Women, Ngangte - Ethnic identity |
| ISBN | 0-472-90425-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Fertility and the politics of identity in Cameroon -- The short-lived marriage of a king's wife : Paulette's "plugged fertility" and blocked mobility -- Being Bangangte: social organization and identity -- Cooking inside : the symbolic construction of gender, marriage and fertility -- The kitchen plundered : fear of infertility -- Seeking remedies : medical pluralism and the distribution of fear -- "Then we were many" : the search for vitality in a changing context -- Kings of Bangangte. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910735592603321 |
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Feldman-Savelsberg Pamela <1958->
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| Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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