The intestines of the state [electronic resource] : youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / Nicolas Argenti.

By: Argenti, NicolasContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007Description: xviii, 362 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Oku (African people) -- History | Oku (African people) -- Politics and government | Oku (African people) -- Social life and customs | Slavery -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- History | Marginality, Social -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- History | Young men -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- Attitudes | Young men -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- Psychology | North-West Province (Cameroon) -- History | North-West Province (Cameroon) -- Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.896/36 LOC classification: DT571.O58 | A74 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history -- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-345) and index.

Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history -- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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