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This book brings and blends together a dozen scholarly articles published by the author since the 1970s. It sketches two different yet related stories: first, that of one of the most ancient and prestigious African civilizations, the antiquity and sophistication of which are becoming more and more prominent as field research unfolds their many facets. Second, the story of the researcher himself, who has had to alter and shift his approach to that civilization as he got to meet Grassfielders, colleagues, friends and scholars who changed his views about the Grassfields kingdoms and their people.…mehr

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This book brings and blends together a dozen scholarly articles published by the author since the 1970s. It sketches two different yet related stories: first, that of one of the most ancient and prestigious African civilizations, the antiquity and sophistication of which are becoming more and more prominent as field research unfolds their many facets. Second, the story of the researcher himself, who has had to alter and shift his approach to that civilization as he got to meet Grassfielders, colleagues, friends and scholars who changed his views about the Grassfields kingdoms and their people. This book bears witness to those many encounters. Historical and anthropological research is not only a question of relevant theories and methodologies. It is also a human endeavour made of networks and friendships.
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Autorenporträt
Jean-Pierre Warnier (PhD, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1975, hororary Professor since 2006) taught anthropology in Nigeria, Cameroon, and, since 1985, at the University Paris-Descartes. Since 1972, he did research on the economic and political history of the Cameroon Grassfields. He later shifted to the study of bodily and material cultures as technologies of power. One of his latest books is The Pot-King. The Body and Technologies of power. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2007.