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African Crossroads Ian Fowler

African Crossroads By Ian Fowler

African Crossroads by Ian Fowler


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Summary

Cameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This collection of essays by eminent historians and anthropologists summarizes three generations of research in Cameroon that began with the collaboration of Phyllis Kaberry and E. M. Chilver soon after the Second World War and continues to this day.

African Crossroads Summary

African Crossroads: Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon by Ian Fowler

Cameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This collection of essays by eminent historians and anthropologists summarizes three generations of research in Cameroon that began with the collaboration of Phyllis Kaberry and E. M. Chilver soon after the Second World War and continues to this day. The idea for this book arose from a concern to recognize the continuing influence of E. M. Chilver on a wide variety of social, historical, political and economic studies. The result is a volume with a broad historical scope yet one that also focuses on major contemporary theoretical issues such as the meaning and construction of ethnic identities and the anthropological study of historical processes.

For more information on this title and related publications, go to
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Chilver/index.html

African Crossroads Reviews

... it is worth saluting Berghahn, the publisher that produces the Cameroon Studies series. This undertaking, which now runs to five volumes (with more on the way) is a wonderful resource for English-speaking students of Cameroonian history. Not only are these books well produced with plentiful illustrations, but they are also reasonably priced. They will form some of the canonical texts for Camerooon studies for years to come, and Cameroonists are very lucky to have such a supportive publisher... Cameroonists now have a whole group of newly available primary sources, elegantly set in context and ready for interpretation. African Affairs

About Ian Fowler

Ian Fowler, School of Social Science, Oxford Brookes University and Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Catalyst: Chilver at the Crossroads
S. Ardener

Chapter 2. The Grassfields and the Tikar
I. Fowler and D. Zeitlyn

Chapter 3. The Person, Ethnicity and the Problem of Identity in West Africa
R. Fardon

Chapter 4. Political Relations and the Eastern Marches of Adamawa in the late 19th Century
P. Burnham

Chapter 5. Mythic Transformation and Historical Continuity: the Duala of Cameroon and German Colonialism, 1884-1914
R. A. Austen

Chapter 6. Imperialisms at the Century's End: Moghamo Relations with Bali-Nyonga and Germany 1889-1908
R. O'Neil

Chapter 7. Nso' Military Organization and Warfare in the 19th and 20th Centuries
V. F. Fanso and B. Chem-Langhee

Chapter 8. Catholicism and Nso' Traditional Beliefs
J. L. Banadzem

Chapter 9. Pursue to Attain: a Royal Religion
C. Tardits

Chapter 10. Political Dress: German-style Military Attire and Colonial Politics in Bamum
C. M. Geary

Chapter 11. Rebellion, Defection and the Position of the Male Cadets: a Neglected Category
J.-P. Warnier

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

GOR013703077
9781571818591
1571818596
African Crossroads: Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon by Ian Fowler
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
19960701
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