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The Politics Of Cultural Difference In Northern Cameroon
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Cultural Difference in Northern Cameroon by : Philip Burnham
Download or read book The Politics of Cultural Difference in Northern Cameroon written by Philip Burnham and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, based on research spanning 25 years, focuses on the shifting patterns of social assimilation and exclusion that have characterised the inter-ethnic relations of this region for almost two centuries. The analysis is brought right up to the 1990s when the decline of the Cameroon state, linked with World Bank structural adjustment policies as well as the growing importance of ethnic associations, NGOs and international bodies has had a major impact on ethnic conflicts and political mobilisation in the region. Engaging in current debates on the 'invention' of tradition, the deconstruction of ethnicity and the nature of the modern African state, this book makes a major contribution to the analysis of ethnic politics, and the risks and possibilities of democratisation, in Africa.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Cultural Difference in Northern Cameroon by : P. C. Burnham
Download or read book The Politics of Cultural Difference in Northern Cameroon written by P. C. Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Politics of Cultural Difference in Northern Cameroon by : P. C. Burnham
Download or read book The Politics of Cultural Difference in Northern Cameroon written by P. C. Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, based on research spanning 25 years, focuses on the shifting patterns of social assimilation and exclusion that have characterised the inter-ethnic relations of North Cameroon for almost two centuries.
Book Synopsis Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique by : Seyla Benhabib
Download or read book Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique written by Seyla Benhabib and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of tightly woven dialogues engages prominent thinkers in a discussion about the role of culture-broadly construed-in contemporary society and politics. Faced with the conceptual inflation of the notion of 'culture, ' which now imposes itself as an indispensable issue in contemporary moral and political debates, these dynamic exchanges seek to rethink culture and critique beyond the schematic models that have often predominated, such as the opposition between "mainstream multiculturalism" and the "clash of civilizations." Prefaced by an introduction relating current cultural debates to the critical theory tradition, this book examines the politics of culture and the spirit of critique from three different vantage points. To begin, Gabriel Rockhill and Alfredo Gomez-Muller provide a stage-setting dialogue, followed by discussions with two major representatives of contemporary critical theory: Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser. Working at the horizons of this tradition, Judith Butler, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Cornel West then provide important critical perspectives on cultural politics. The book's concluding section engages with Michael Sandel and Will Kymlicka, who work out of the Rawlsian tradition yet are uniquely concerned with the issue of culture, broadly understood. The epilogue, an interview with Axel Honneth, returns to the core issue of critical theory in cultural politics. Ranging from recent developments and progressive interventions in critical theory to dialogues that incorporate its insights into larger discussions of social and political philosophy, this book sharpens old critical tools while developing new strategies for rethinking the role of 'culture' in contemporary society.
Book Synopsis Masks and Staffs by : Michaela Pelican
Download or read book Masks and Staffs written by Michaela Pelican and published by Integration and Conflict Studi. This book was released on 2015 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the stage : cultural difference and political rivalry in times of transition -- The power of the Fon : Nchaney political history -- From pastoral society to an indigenous people : Mbororo identity politics -- A shift to economic competition? : Farmer-herder conflict and cattle theft in the Misaje area -- On being Hausa : consolidation of the Hausa ethnic category in the Grassfields -- Grassfielder by birth, Muslim by choice : religious and ethnic conversion -- The murder of Mr. X : legal pluralism and conflict management in the early 2000s.
Book Synopsis Pentecostalism, Globalisation, and Islam in Northern Cameroon by : Tomas Sundnes Drønen
Download or read book Pentecostalism, Globalisation, and Islam in Northern Cameroon written by Tomas Sundnes Drønen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentecostalism is among the fastest growing social movements in the 21th century. This volume discusses global aspects of Pentecostal churches in northern Cameroon, by describing how the local congregations interact with civil society, traditional religion, and Islam. Extensive fieldwork and descriptions of the complex historical context within which the churches emerge, makes the author draw attention to Pentecostal leaders as social entrepreneurs inspired both by local traditions and by a global flow of images and ideas. This indicates that Pentecostalism can be interpreted both as a social and as a religious movement which manages to encounter mainline churches and Islam with flexibility and spiritual authority.
Book Synopsis Communication and Conversion in Northern Cameroon by : Tomas Sundnes Drønen
Download or read book Communication and Conversion in Northern Cameroon written by Tomas Sundnes Drønen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was modern Christian mission to Africa primarily a colonial project and a civilizing mission or was it a spiritual revival spreading to new areas? This book tells the tale of the Dii people in northern Cameroon and describes their encounter with Norwegian missionaries. Through archival studies and through fieldwork among the Dii, an intriguing scenario is presented. Whereas the missionaries describe their mission as one of spiritual liberation, and the Dii highligt the social liberation they received through literacy and political independence, the author shows how both spiritual and social changes were results of captivation, miscommunication and constant negotiations between the two parties.
Book Synopsis Reconfiguring Slavery by : Benedetta Rossi
Download or read book Reconfiguring Slavery written by Benedetta Rossi and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection that advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.
Book Synopsis Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church by : Joel Cabrita
Download or read book Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church written by Joel Cabrita and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church tells the story of one of the largest African churches in South Africa, Ibandla lamaNazaretha, or Church of the Nazaretha. Founded in 1910 by charismatic faith-healer Isaiah Shembe, the Nazaretha church, with over four million members, has become an influential social and political player in the region. Deeply influenced by a transnational evangelical literary culture, Nazaretha believers have patterned their lives upon the Christian Bible. They cast themselves as actors who enact scriptural drama upon African soil. But Nazaretha believers also believe the existing Christian Bible to be in need of updating and revision. For this reason, they have written further scriptures - a new 'Bible' - which testify to the miraculous work of their founding prophet, Shembe. Joel Cabrita's book charts the key role that these sacred texts play in making, breaking and contesting social power and authority, both within the church and more broadly in South African public life.
Book Synopsis Water and Aid in Mozambique by : Emily Van Houweling
Download or read book Water and Aid in Mozambique written by Emily Van Houweling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centres community voices to analyse the contested and unintentional social impacts of water projects in rural Mozambique.
Book Synopsis Islam, Youth and Modernity in the Gambia by : Marloes Janson
Download or read book Islam, Youth and Modernity in the Gambia written by Marloes Janson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph explores the expansion of the Tablighi Jama'at, a transnational Islamic missionary movement that originated in India in the mid-nineteenth century, and its impact in the Gambia (West Africa) in the past decade. The Jama'at offers Gambian youth, and women in particular, new opportunities to express their religious identity in a way that is in line with a modern lifestyle. The book investigates how Gambian youth have incorporated the South Asian Tablighi ideology into their daily lives and adapted it to their local context.
Book Synopsis Decolonizing Heritage by : Ferdinand De Jong
Download or read book Decolonizing Heritage written by Ferdinand De Jong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how Senegal has decolonised its cultural heritage sites since independence, many of which are remnants of the French empire.
Book Synopsis Edges of Global Transformation by : Håkon Fyhn
Download or read book Edges of Global Transformation written by Håkon Fyhn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through nine ethnographic case-studies, Edges of Global Transformation explores situations where global transformations associated with neoliberalism meet local realities. The “edge” of transformation is characterized by uncertainty, as old patterns are consumed and new formed. The nine case studies from Africa, Europe and the Middle East shed light on how uncertainty plays an inevitable and essential role in the grey zone between macro-transformations and local responses. Despite the tremendous difference in precariousness between these cases, each contributor explores ways in which transformations are conceived and acted upon within the space of possibility that is opened and apprehended locally. The role of uncertainty as an active force is explored throughout the book. While in some cases, uncertainty has a clear restricting effect; other cases illustrate its potential as a productive force. As a contribution to understanding the dynamic of the local realities of global change, the book will be valuable reading for anyone interested in globalization and the neoliberal world order.
Book Synopsis African Christianity by : Paul Gifford
Download or read book African Christianity written by Paul Gifford and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-22 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These detailed analyses of the state of the churches in each country suggest more general patterns operating widely across sub-Saharan Africa.
Book Synopsis African Kingdoms by : Saheed Aderinto
Download or read book African Kingdoms written by Saheed Aderinto and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history-rich volume details the sociopolitical, economic, and artistic aspects of African kingdoms from the earliest times to the second half of the 19th century. Africa has a long and fascinating history and is a place of growing importance in the world history curriculum. This detailed encyclopedia covers the history of African kingdoms from antiquity through the mid-19th century, tracing the dynasties' ties to modern globalization and influences on world culture before, during, and after the demise of the slave trade. Along with an exploration of African heritage, this reference is rich with firsthand accounts of Africa through the oral traditions of its people and the written journals of European explorers, missionaries, and travelers who visited Africa from the 15th century and onward. Alphabetically arranged entries cover a particular kingdom and feature information on the economic, cultural, religious, political, social, and environmental history of the regime. The content references popular culture, movies, and art that present contemporary reenactments of kingdoms, emphasizing the importance of history in shaping modern ideas. Other features include primary source documents, a selected bibliography of print and electronic resources, and dozens of sidebars containing key facts and interesting trivia.
Book Synopsis Cutting the Vines of the Past by : Tamara Giles-Vernick
Download or read book Cutting the Vines of the Past written by Tamara Giles-Vernick and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To illuminate how a group of equatorial Africans understands environmental change, Giles-Vernick (history, City U. of New York- Baruch College) examines the changing intellectual tools and content of environmental and historical perceptions and knowledge among Mpiemu people who lived in the middle and upper Sangha River basin of the Central African Republic during the 20th century. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Philosophising in Mombasa by : Kai Kresse
Download or read book Philosophising in Mombasa written by Kai Kresse and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophising in Mombasa provides an approach to the anthropological study of philosophical discourses in the Swahili context of Mombasa, Kenya. In this historically established Muslim environment, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, philosophy is investigated as social discourse and intellectual practice, situated in everyday life. This is done from the perspective of an 'anthropology of philosophy', a project which is spelled out in the opening chapter. Entry-points and guidelines for the ethnography are provided by discussions of Swahili literary genres, life histories, and social debates. From here, local discourses of knowledge are described and analysed. The social environment and discursive dynamics of the Old Town are portrayed, firstly, by means of following and contextualising informal discussions among neighbours and friends at daily meeting points in the streets; and secondly, by presenting and discussing in-depth case studies of local intellectuals and their contributions to moral and intellectual debates within the community. Taking recurrent internal discussions on social affairs, politics, and appropriate Islamic conduct as a focus, this study sheds light on local practices of critique and reflection. In particular, three local intellectuals (two poets, one Islamic scholar) are portrayed against the background of regional intellectual history, Islamic scholarship, as well as common public debates and private discussions. The three contextual portrayals discuss exemplary issues for the wider field of research on philosophical discourse in Mombasa and the Swahili context on the whole, with reference to the lives and projects of distinct individual thinkers. Ultimately, the study directs attention beyond the regional and the African contexts, towards the anthropological study of knowledge and intellectual practice around the world.
