Encounter, Transformation, and Identity

Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands, 1891-2000
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-336-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: Cameroon Studies

Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West Province of Cameroon and the Nigerian borderlands, this volume presents critical and analytical approaches to the production of ethnic, political, religious, and gendered identities in the region. The contributors examine a range of issues relating to identity, including first encounters and conflict as well as global networking, trans-national families, enculturation, gender, resistance, and death. In addition to a number of very striking illustrations of ethnographic and material culture, this volume contains key maps from early German sources and other original cartographical materials.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fowler, Ian

Fanso, Verkijika G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of maps and figures

Notes on contributors

Foreword. Shirley Ardener: A personal note

Verkijika G. Fanso

Preface. Shirley Ardener: Fortifying Cameroon Studies

Martin Njeuma and Dorothy Njeuma

Introduction

Ian Fowler

Chapter 1. Oral traditions and administrative identities

Edwin Ardener

Chapter 2. Epitome of extracts from Hermann Detzner Im Lande des Dju-Dju Berlin: August Scherl, 1923

Sally Chilver

Chapter 3. Von Gravenreuth and Buea as a site of history: early colonial violence on Mount Cameroon

Peter Geschiere

Chapter 4. Azi since Conrau: Anthropological and historical perspectives

Michael Mbapndah Ndobegang and Fiona Bowie

Chapter 5. The submerged history of Nsanakang: A glimpse into an Anglo-German encounter

Ute Röschenthaler

Chapter 6. The latent struggle for identity and autonomy in the southern Cameroons, 1916-1946

Verkijika G. Fanso

Chapter 7. Titi Ikoli revisited: Fetishism, gender and power in transitional forest economies of the Upper Cross River borderlands, 1920s-1990s

Caroline Ifeka

Chapter 8. Commemorating women in a patrilineal society

Margaret Niger-Thomas

Chapter 9. The challenge of multi-sited ethnography

Fiona Bowie

Chapter 10. The essentialist temptation: Eucharistic meal and identity in postcolonial African Catholicism

Lado Ludovic

Chapter 11. Making a difference in north-south relationships: Public and private spheres and the role of the human seed in networking for local development

Joyce Endeley and Nalova Lyonga

Appendix: Extracts on the Widekum and the Tikar taken from notes on the Bamenda grassfields

Sally Chilver and Phyllis Kaberry

Combined references

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fanso, Verkijika G.
Verkijika G. Fanso is Professor of History at the University of Yaoundé I. He has published widely on African political history and Cameroon history and culture. He has played a key role in promoting the culture of Cameroon and supporting the Cameroon archives at Buea and is President of the Association of Friends of Archives and Antiquities in Cameroon.

Fowler, Ian
Ian Fowler is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology. He has carried out fieldwork in Cameroon over a thirty year period. He is a general editor of the Cameroon Studies Series and has published on material culture, art, ethnicity, history, and politics in Cameroon.

Ian Fowler is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology. He has carried out fieldwork in Cameroon over a thirty year period. He is a general editor of the Cameroon Studies Series and has published on material culture, art, ethnicity, history, and politics in Cameroon.