Format:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 362 p)
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ill., maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780226026121
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0226026116
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0226026124
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9780226026114
Content:
The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. For centuries the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial rulers. Today's youth remain at the bottom of the fiercely hierarchical and polarized societies of the Grassfields, and it is their response to centuries of exploitation that Nicolas Argenti takes up in this absorbing and original book.Beginning his study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from the eighteenth century to the
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-345) and index
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Contents; Note on Orthography; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Centuries of Youth: Remembering, Incorporation, and the Reclamation of History; 2. Kings, Slaves, and Floating Populations: Discourses of Centrality and Marginality in the Precolonial Era; 3. Masks of Terror and the Subjection of Cadets; 4. Aurora colonialis: German Imperialism and the Modernity of Slavery; 5. Embodied Histories: Royal Investiture, Masking, and Remembering; 6. From Slaves to Free Boys: Cadets' Resistance to Gerontocratic, Colonial, and Postcolonial Authority
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7. The Death of Tears: Mortuary Rites and the Indeterminacy of Dance8. Dancing Death: Memorial Celebrations, the Politics of Ritual Laughter, and the Embodied Memories of Youth; 9. Histories of the Present, Histories of the Future; Notes; Reference List; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226026114
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Intestines of the State : Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields
Language:
English
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