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Masks and Staffs: Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields
Michaela Pelican
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Description for Masks and Staffs: Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields
Paperback. The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups - the Grassfields societies, the Mbororo, and the Hausa - provides a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of ethnicity and interethnic relations. Series: Integration and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 258 pages, 22 illustrations, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFJA; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups - Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa - provide a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of identity politics and interethnic relations. In the midst of the political liberalization of Cameroon in the late 1990s and 2000s, local responses to political and legal changes took the form of a series of performative and discursive expressions of ethnicity. Confrontational encounters stimulated by economic and political rivalry, as well as socially integrative processes, transformed collective self-understanding in Cameroon in conjunction with recent global discourses on human, minority, and indigenous rights. The book provides a ... Read more
The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups - Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa - provide a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of identity politics and interethnic relations. In the midst of the political liberalization of Cameroon in the late 1990s and 2000s, local responses to political and legal changes took the form of a series of performative and discursive expressions of ethnicity. Confrontational encounters stimulated by economic and political rivalry, as well as socially integrative processes, transformed collective self-understanding in Cameroon in conjunction with recent global discourses on human, minority, and indigenous rights. The book provides a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Integration and Conflict Studies
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785335143
SKU
V9781785335143
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About Michaela Pelican
Michaela Pelican is Junior Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. She is also the co-director of the University of Cologne Forum Ethnicity as a Political Resource: Perspectives from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe and a member of the Cologne Global South Studies Center. She is the editor of a special issue, ... Read more
Reviews for Masks and Staffs: Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields
Masks and Staffs belongs to a very distinguished series on ethnicity, identity, and conflict ...and is a worthwhile contribution to that series...Pelican has effectively demonstrated how overlapping, internally differentiated, and changing groups and categories exist and operate in this particular region, with lessons that are highly applicable to other if not all parts of the world.
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