The intestines of the state [electronic resource] : youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / Nicolas Argenti.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.Description: xviii, 362 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 0226026116 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226026124 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780226026114 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226026121 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Marginality, Social -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- History
- Oku (African people) -- History
- Oku (African people) -- Politics and government
- Oku (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Slavery -- 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 conditions
- 305.896/36 22
- DT571.O58 A74 2007eb
eBooks
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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.