ISBN:
9780226026138
,
0226026132
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xviii, 362 p.)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Intestines of the state
DDC:
305.89636
Keywords:
Oku (African people) History
;
Oku (African people) Politics and government
;
Oku (African people) Social life and customs
;
Slavery History
;
Cameroon
;
North-West Province
;
Marginality, Social History
;
Cameroon
;
North-West Province
;
Young men Attitudes
;
Cameroon
;
North-West Province
;
Young men Psychology
;
Cameroon
;
North-West Province
;
Oku (African people) History
;
Oku (African people) Politics and government
;
Oku (African people) Social life and customs
;
Slavery History
;
Marginality, Social History
;
Young men Attitudes
;
Young men Psychology
;
Slavery History
;
Marginality, Social History
;
Young men Attitudes
;
Young men Psychology
;
Oku (African people) Social life and customs
;
Oku (African people) History
;
Oku (African people) Politics and government
;
Marginality, Social
;
Oku (African people)
;
Slavery
;
Social conditions
;
Young men ; Attitudes
;
Young men ; Psychology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies
;
History
;
North-West Province (Cameroon) History
;
North-West Province (Cameroon) Social conditions
;
North-West Province (Cameroon) Social conditions
;
North-West Province (Cameroon) History
;
North-West Province (Cameroon) Social conditions
;
North-West Province (Cameroon) History
;
Cameroon ; North-West Province
;
Electronic books
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of historyKings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-345) and index. - Description based on print version record
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