Cameroon Grassfields Civilization

Table of Contents

Table of contents Introduction - 1. Forty years of research in the making.................................................................... 1 Part I - The historical background................................................................................................... 13 2.The history of the peopling of Western Cameroon and the genesis of its landscapes ....................... 15 3. A Nineteenth-century Ruhr in Central Africa (with Ian Fowler) .................................................... 25 4. The linguistic situation and the history of the Grassfields ............................................................... 41 Part II - The Grassfields regional economy...................................................................................... 49 5. Of pigs and people (with Karin Luke)............................................................................................ 51 6. Trade guns as a source in history..................................................................................................... 57 7. Slave trading without slave raiding ................................................................................................. 69 8. The transfer of young people’s working ethos from the Grassfields to the Atlantic Coast................. 83 Part III - Grassfields sacred kingship ............................................................................................... 89 9. Matter for territorialization. An inroad into a contemporary African kingdom............................... 91 10. Containers, surfaces, apertures and contents................................................................................. 99 11. Rebellion, defection and the position of male cadets: a neglected category (with an afterword) .. 109 12. The Mankon palace.................................................................................................................... 119 General conclusion - 13. New directions for research ................................................................... 131 Bibliography................................................................................................................................... 141 Table of illustrations....................................................................................................................... 151 ...