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Author : Phyllis Mary Kaberry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (654 download)
Download or read book An Outline of the Traditional Political System of Bali-Nyonga written by Phyllis Mary Kaberry and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent Titanji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Bali-Nyonga written by Vincent Titanji and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Banton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135650357
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Political Systems and the Distribution of Power written by Michael Banton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern political anthropology began in 1940 with the first systematic comparative studies of how primitive societies maintained law and order. The focus was on government and the presence or absence of state institutions. Recently, interest has shifted to the study of power, to examining the manipulation of political relations, and to the task of elaborating a classification of governmental systems that will throw light on the important problems for research. First published in 1965.
Author : K. Titanji
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1942876351
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Bali Nyonga Today written by K. Titanji and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly edited volume, Bali Nyonga Today covers about thirty years of (1985-2015) developments in Bali Nyonga, Cameroon. Already well-established as a city-state prior to German colonization in the 19th century, Bali Nyonga continues to adapt to national and global changes since its incorporation into the modern state of Cameroon. With fresh contributions from 12 leading scholars, this volume covers a wide variety of themes and issues including; geographical and historical updates on Chamba migration and settlement in its present homeland in Northwestern Cameroon, an in-depth description of Bali Nyonga cultural associations within the country and the Bali diaspora in the United States, the coexistence of traditional and modern religious worldviews, traditional medicinal practices and life-cycle rituals of significance. Of noteworthy are two chapters devoted to Mungaka, the language of the Balis and its revival in the context of new language policies and developments in African linguistic. Spiced with numerous photos, many of which have never been published, the book is a welcome addition to studies in contemporary African history, culture and society.
Author : Richard Fardon
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178238877X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Lela in Bali written by Richard Fardon and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial Cameroonians, Lela has become one of the most important of Cameroonian festivals and a crucial marker of identity within the state. Richard Fardon’s recuperation of two hundred years of history is an essential contribution not only to Cameroonian studies but also to the broader understanding of the evolution of African cultures.
Author : Olufemi Vaughan
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tradition and Politics written by Olufemi Vaughan and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on selected papers presented at the international conference on Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa, held in the University of Nigeria in 2001. Drawing from the works of leading scholars of the subject, this volume explores the interaction between indigenous socio-political structures and African state politics. Focusing on the imaginative response of indigenous structures to the expansion of political space in the 20th Century, it analyses the implications of these grassroots institutions for modern state formation.
Author : Jude Thaddeus Dingbobga Fokwang
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956558648
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Mediating Legitimacy: Chieftaincy and Democratisation in Two African Chiefdoms written by Jude Thaddeus Dingbobga Fokwang and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses the effects of democratic transition in two African countries - Cameroon and South Africa - on chiefs and the institution of chieftainship. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the monograph explores the cultural and socio-political conditions that enabled chiefs to reinvent themselves in the new era of democratic politics despite their status as 'old political actors'. It explores the kinds of legitimacies claimed by chiefs in the new era and the responses of their subjects to such claims, particularly with respect to chiefs' involvement in national politics. The monograph makes a case for the importance of comparative research on chiefs in the era of democracy and the predicaments they face therein. It contends that contrary to exhortations about the incompatibility of chiefs and democracy, the reality is that political transition in both South Africa and Cameroon produced contradictions, creating space and a role for chiefs in a fascinating and negotiated interplay of legitimacies and history.
Author : Ian Fowler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571818591
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (185 download)
Download or read book African Crossroads written by Ian Fowler and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This collection of essays by eminent historians and anthropologists summarizes three generations of research in Cameroon that began with the collaboration of Phyllis Kaberry and E. M. Chilver soon after the Second World War and continues to this day. The idea for this book arose from a concern to recognize the continuing influence of E. M. Chilver on a wide variety of social, historical, political and economic studies. The result is a volume with a broad historical scope yet one that also focuses on major contemporary theoretical issues such as the meaning and construction of ethnic identities and the anthropological study of historical processes. For more information on this title and related publications, go to http: //lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Chilver/index.html
Author : Doctor Claire Mercer
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136447
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Development and the African Diaspora written by Doctor Claire Mercer and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been much recent celebration of the success of African 'civil society' in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora. Against the background of such celebrations, this innovative book sheds light on the diasporic networks - 'home associations' - whose economic contributions are being used to develop home. Despite these networks being part of the flow of migrants' resources back to Africa that now outweighs official development assistance, the relationship between the flow of capital and social and political change are still poorly understood. Looking in particular at Cameroon and Tanzania, the authors examine the networks of migrants that have been created by making 'home associations' international. They argue that claims in favour of enlarging 'civil society' in Africa must be placed in the broader context of the political economy of migration and wider debates concerning ethnicity and belonging. They demonstrate both that diasporic development is distinct from mainstream development, and that it is an uneven historical process in which some 'homes' are better placed to take advantage of global connections than others. In doing so, the book engages critically with the current enthusiasm among policy-makers for treating the African diaspora as an untapped resource for combating poverty. Its focus on diasporic networks, rather than private remittances, reveals the particular successes and challenges diasporas face in acting as a group, not least in mobilising members of the diaspora to fulfill obligations to home.
Author : Fondi Nyamndi
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1957296194
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (572 download)
Download or read book In Search of Harmony written by Fondi Nyamndi and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Harmony traces the migration of Bali Nyonga, its transformation from a raiding band into a settled community in the Bamenda Grassfields, its development from a dispirited splinter of the broken Chamba alliance into a structured kingdom with solid institutions and a powerful monarch, its fateful encounter with the Europeans, and its transition into competitive national politics. It explores the complex and often conflicting web of relationships with its neighbours that have continued to impact its development. Students of Cameroon history and politics will find this volume useful, informative and challenging.
Author : Ian Fowler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845459342
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Encounter, Transformation, and Identity written by Ian Fowler and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Richard G. Dillon
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804715713
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Ranking and Resistance written by Richard G. Dillon and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon extended anthropological fieldwork and ethnohistorical reconstruction, this is a study of the precolonical political system of an acephalous society in West Africa. The Meta' are a sedentary farming people living in what is now the Republic of Cameroon. In the precolonial era, the Meta' had created a polity that was remarkable for its size, its relative peacefulness, and the effectiveness of its dispute settlement procedures. Located on the fringes of a regional trading network dominated by several strong chiefdoms, the Meta' polity was also notable for the degree to which ranking had developed in what remained an uncentralized political system. A wide range of data (including in-depth interviews about Meta' political concepts, remembered case histories of conflict and competition, and information on the broader regional network) are used to illuminate both the internal dynamics of the Meta' policy and the influence of the regional system upon it. The author pays particular attention to ranking, the impact of trade upon political organization, and the development of a consensual polity-wide system of conflict resolution.
Author : John Mukum Mbaku Esq.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313027366
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Culture and Customs of Cameroon written by John Mukum Mbaku Esq. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon, in Central Africa, has been called Africa in miniature. It is characterized by exceptional social and ethnic diversity, with more than 250 ethnicities now forming five major regional-culture groupings. This volume is the first to encapsulate Cameroon's rich indigenous and modern customs and traditions in depth. The narrative emphasizes those aspects that define its modern nation, its peoples, the unique societies, their institutions, and various lifestyles. The origins of Cameroon's diverse culture are traced back to the various ethnic groups and languages as well as the influence of European colonialism, Christianity, Islam, and other external factors, including globalization. In each topical chapter, examples from ethnic groups are presented to give some sense of the variety of experiences. Cameroon has had a turbulent and eventful modern history with German, English, and French incursions, and students and general readers will be able to understand the current struggle for democracy post independence. The history colors the substantial coverage of the many topics examined, from education, to marriage and women's roles, sports, and holidays, daily life, the arts, and much more. This volume will stand as the definitive, accessible introduction to Cameroon and will be essential for building a well-rounded Africa collection.
Author : Max Gluckman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136528563
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa written by Max Gluckman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays are mainly concerned with the development of some of Max Gluckman's ideas about African politics. He regarded frequent rebellions to replace incumbents of political offices (as against revolutions to alter the structure of offices) as inherent in these politics. Later he connected this situation with modes of husbandry, problems of the devolution of power, types of weapons and the law of treason. He advanced to a general theory of ritual, as well as to general propositions about the position of officials representing conflicting interests within a hierarchy, typified by the African chief under colonial rule. Originally published in 1963.
Author : Nicolas Argenti
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226026132
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Intestines of the State written by Nicolas Argenti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Gwaibi, Numvi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956763918
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Decentralisation and Community Participation written by Gwaibi, Numvi and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how policies of decentralisation and community participation adopted in Cameroon in 1996 have played out on the ground since 2004. These reforms were carried out amid economic crisis, structural adjustment and political upheaval. At the time, popular sentiment was that change on the economic and political fronts was imperative. However, the ruling elite, some of whom had been shuttling around the state apparatus since independence, feared that succumbing to popular demands for change was tantamount to political suicide, as was the case elsewhere on the continent. These elites thwarted opposition demands for a ‘sovereign’ national conference to discuss constitutional reform. The Francophone-dominated elite fiercely objected to Anglophone demands for the restoration of the Federal state that was dissolved in 1972. Instead, decentralisation was presented as an authentic forum for grassroots autonomy and municipal councils as credible arenas for community participation in local development. This study adopts an interdisciplinary approach to unearth the permutations of decentralisation and community participation in Cameroon. It explores how local actors have responded to the implementation of state policy of decentralisation. Further, it documents how local issues observed in Bali in the North West Region and Mbankomo in the Central Region of Cameroon impact and are impacted by national policies and processes.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Political Systems and the Distribution of Power written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
