The intestines of the state youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / [electronic resource] :
Nicolas Argenti.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- xviii, 362 p. : ill., maps.
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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Oku (African people)--History. Oku (African people)--Politics and government. Oku (African people)--Social life and customs. Slavery--History.--Cameroon--North-West Province Marginality, Social--History.--Cameroon--North-West Province Young men--Attitudes.--Cameroon--North-West Province Young men--Psychology.--Cameroon--North-West Province
North-West Province (Cameroon)--History. North-West Province (Cameroon)--Social conditions.