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  • 1
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    Online Resource
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780226026138
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (387 pages)
    DDC: 305.896/36
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-2000 ; Jugend ; Macht ; Politisches System ; Außenseiter ; Oku
    Abstract: 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 present, Argenti pays special attention to the repeated violent revolts staged by young victims of political oppression. He then combines this history with extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Oku chiefdom, discovering that the specter of past violence lives on in the masked dance performances that have earned intense devotion from today's youth. Argenti contends that by evoking the imagery of past cataclysmic events, these masquerades allow young Oku men and women to address the inequities they face in their relations with elders and state authorities today.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 1845456246 , 9781845456245 , 9780857456274
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (270 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Remembering Violence : Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Intergenerational communication ; Ethnopsychology ; Memory ; Intergenerational relations ; Violence ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility, becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly. However, comparatively little research has been done on the transgenerational effects of trauma and the means by which experiences are transmitted from person to person across time to become intrinsic parts of the social fabric. With eight contributions covering Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East, this volume sheds new light on
    Description / Table of Contents: Title page-Remembering Violence; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1-Introduction; Bodies of Memory; Chapter 2-Rape and Remembrance in Guadeloupe; Chapter 3-Uncanny Memmories, Violence and Indigenous Medicine in Southern Chile; Performance; Chapter 4-Memories of Initiation Violence: Remembered Pain and Religious Transmission among the Bulongic (Guinea, Conakry); Chapter 5-Nationalising Personal Trauma, Personalising National Redemption: Performing Testimony at Auschwitz-Birkenau; Landscapes, Memoryscapes and the Materiality of Objects
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6-Memories of Slavery: Narrating History in Ritual Chapter 7-In a Ruined Country: Place and the Memory of War Destruction in Argonne (France) ; Generations: Chasms and Bridges; Chapter 8-Silent Legacies of Trauma: A Comparative Study of Cambodian Canadian and Israeli Holocaust Trauma Descendant Memory Work; Chapter 9-The Transmission of Traumatic Loss: A Case Study in Taiwan; Chapter 10-Afterword: Violence and the Generation of Memory ; Notes on Contributors; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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