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Berghahn Books Encounter Transformation and Identity Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands 1891-2000 2009 Edition by Ian Fowler, Verkijika G. Fanso
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. Table of contents :- List of maps and figuresNotes on contributorsForeword. Shirley Ardener: A personal noteVerkijika G. FansoPreface. Shirley Ardener: Fortifying Cameroon StudiesMartin Njeuma and Dorothy NjeumaIntroductionIan FowlerChapter 1. Oral traditions and administrative identitiesEdwin ArdenerChapter 2. Epitome of extracts from Hermann Detzner Im Lande des Dju-Dju Berlin: August Scherl, 1923Sally ChilverChapter 3. Von Gravenreuth and Buea as a site of history: early colonial violence on Mount CameroonPeter GeschiereChapter 4. Azi since Conrau: Anthropological and historical perspectivesMichael Mbapndah Ndobegang and Fiona BowieChapter 5. The submerged history of Nsanakang: A glimpse into an Anglo-German encounterUte RoeschenthalerChapter 6. The latent struggle for identity and autonomy in the southern Cameroons, 1916-1946Verkijika G. FansoChapter 7. Titi Ikoli revisited: Fetishism, gender and power in transitional forest economies of the Upper Cross River borderlands, 1920s-1990sCaroline IfekaChapter 8. Commemorating women in a patrilineal societyMargaret Niger-ThomasChapter 9. The challenge of multi-sited ethnographyFiona BowieChapter 10. The essentialist temptation: Eucharistic meal and identity in postcolonial African CatholicismLado LudovicChapter 11. Making a difference in north-south relationships: Public and private spheres and the role of the human seed in networking for local developmentJoyce Endeley and Nalova LyongaAppendix: Extracts on the Widekum and the Tikar taken from notes on the Bamenda grassfieldsSally Chilver and Phyllis KaberryCombined referencesIndex