Masks and staffs : identity politics in the Cameroon Grassfields

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

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,...

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Main Author: Pelican, Michaela (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, [2015]
Series:Integration and conflict studies ; v. 11.
Subjects:
Ethnicity > Cameroon.
Ethnic conflict > Cameroon.
Ethnic relations > Political aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Ethnic conflict
Ethnic relations
Ethnic relations > Political aspects
Ethnicity
Hausa
Identität
Ländlicher Raum
Volk
Stamm > Ethnologie
Konfliktregelung
Minderheitenfrage
Ethnische Beziehungen
Bororo > Fulbe
Cameroon > Ethnic relations.
Cameroon
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the scene : cultural difference and political rivalry in times of transition
  • The power of the Fon : Nchaney political history
  • From pastoral society to Indigenous people : Mbororo identity politics
  • A shift to economic competition? : Farmer-herder conflict and cattle theft in the Misaje area
  • On being Hausa : consolidation of the Hausa ethnic category in the Grassfields
  • Grassfielder by birth, Muslim by choice : religious and ethnic conversion
  • The murder of Mr X : legal pluralism and conflict management in the early 2000s.

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