Anthropology
Books
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2009, author(s)-editor(s) Jude Fokwang
Chieftaincy and Democratisation in Two African Chiefdoms
This study analyses the effects of democratic transition in two African countries - Cameroon and South Africa – on chiefs and the institution of chieftainship. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the monograph explores the cultural and socio-political conditions that enabled chiefs to reinvent themselves in the new era of democratic politics despite their status as ‘old political actors’. It explores the kinds of legitimacies claimed by (...)
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2009, author(s)-editor(s) Francis B. Nyamnjoh,
Mirjam de Bruijn
The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa
’We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone’ is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel of the communication landscape in many urban and rural areas of Africa and the growth of mobile telephony is amazing: from 1 in 50 people being users in 2000 to 1 in 3 in 2008. Such growth is impressive but it does not even begin to tell us about the many ways in which mobile phones are being (...)
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2010, author(s)-editor(s) Célestine Colette Fouellefak Kana
Notre ouvrage veut répondre à la question fondamentale de restituer la véritable nature des valeurs africaines et plus spécifiquement bamiléké, occultées lors de la rencontre entre Occident chrétien et monde noir dit animiste. Cette tâche est imposée par le malaise que certains chrétiens africains vivent dans l’Eglise. Elle est rendue nécessaire et urgente par le sentiment d’échec de la première évangélisation qui s’est avérée incapable d’enraciner le message de Dieu dans les croyances religieuses (...)
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2011, author(s)-editor(s) Jude Fokwang,
Kehbuma Langmia
Contemporary Bali Nyonga is a rapidly growing town of over 80,000 in habitants, sixteen kilometres southwest of Bamenda, the capital of the North West region, Cameroon. If Cameroon has been aptly referred to in many circles as Africa in miniature, then Bali Nyonga, since its founding in the mid 19th century is emblematic of this so-called ’multicultural’ region. This book is about change in Bali Nyonga, but it is also about change in a typical postcolonial African setting grappling with a (...)
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2011, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba
Mountain forests provide important ecological services, and essential products. This book focuses on the importance of mountain forests in Cameroon for the local people who depend most directly on them, and have often developed a wealth of indigenous knowledge on plants and sophisticated institutions for managing limited plant and animal resources. Such knowledge and institutions have often been threatened, or even destroyed, by centralization and globalization; yet there is increasing (...)
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2011, author(s)-editor(s) B. Chem-Langhee,
V.G. Fanso
This is a rich and compelling volume of readings in social history on Nso’ and its neighbours in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon. It consists of 19 essays by some of the leading historians, archeologists and ethnographers of the region, with seminal contributions by Jean-Pierre Warnier, Paul Nchoji Nkwi, Bongfen Chem-Langhee, Phyllis Kaberry, E.M Chilver, Miriam Goheen, Ian Flower, Dan Lantum and V.G. Fanso. The book covers a broad range of themes from precolonial times to date, (...)
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2011, author(s)-editor(s) Francis B. Nyamnjoh,
René Devisch
This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial turn in Africanist scholarship. As a whole, it provides five decennia-long lucid and empathetic research involvements by seasoned scholars who came to live, in local people’s own ways, significant daily events experienced by communities, professional networks and local experts in various African contexts.
The book covers materials drawn from Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of (...)
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2011, author(s)-editor(s) Siri Lamoureaux
This detailed, meticulous ethnographic study on mobile phone use among Nuba students at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, distinguishes itself from other studies by taking a focused look at the linguistic content of mobile phone interactions via text-messaging, portraying it as a site for the expression of personalized and affective language. While men and women appear to be equally aggressive consumers and producers of text-message poetry, women are formally discouraged in using the (...)
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2012, author(s)-editor(s) Crystal Powell
Cell phones and the Internet have been the recipients of in-depth research on their increased and rapid integration into everyday life and the innovative appropriations associated with them in many societies. The cell phone has attracted particular attention in its perceived abilities to both enhance and destruct social relationships. Our increased access to social media and to the cell phone has taken social networking to an unprecedented level. These communication technologies are revered (...)
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2012, author(s)-editor(s) Primus M. Tazanu
The book investigates what have become of Cameroonian transnational family and friendship ties in the age of the mobile phone and the internet that make people readily available and reachable.
Most theoretical literature states that these tools of sociality cement transnational social relationships through instantaneous interaction. To capture the different experiences and impressions on the significance of these media in easing communication for migrants and non-migrants, Tazanu draws on (...)
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