Michaela Pelican

Masks and Staffs

Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Integration and Conflict Studies
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781785335143
• ISBN-10: 1785335146
• Artikelnr.: 46603575

Autorenporträt

Michaela Pelican is Junior Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. She is also the 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, "Global African Entrepreneurs" (Urban Anthropology 2014, 43), and the author of several articles on indigenous rights movements in Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Setting the Scene: Cultural Difference and Political Rivalry in
Times of Transition
Chapter 2. The Power of the Fon: Nchaney Political History
Chapter 3. From Pastoral Society to Indigenous People: Mbororo Identity
Politics
Chapter 4. A Shift to Economic Competition? Farmer-Herder Conflict and
Cattle Theft in the Misaje Area
Chapter 5. On Being Hausa: Consolidation of the Hausa Ethnic Category in
the Grassfields
Chapter 6. Grassfielder by Birth, Muslim by Choice: Religious and Ethnic
Conversion
Chapter 7. The Murder of Mr X: Legal Pluralism and Conflict Management in
the Early 2000s
Epilogue
Glossary
References
Index