NSO' and Its Neighbours: Readings in Social History

Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. CONTENTS - PREFACE - INTRODUCTION - SECTION I. THE REGIONAL BACKGROUND - 1. THE HISTORY OF THE PEOPLING OF WESTERN CAMEROON AND THE GENESIS OF ITS LANDSCAPES - JEAN-PIERRE WARNIER - - 2. TRADITIONAL DIPLOMACY, TRADE AND WARFARE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY WESTERN GRASSFIELDS - PAUL NCHOJI NKWI - SECTION II. PRECOLONIAL STUDIES - 3. THE OKU IRON INDUSTRY IN ITS REGIONAL SETTING: A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT - IAN FOWLER - 4. TRADITIONAL MODES OF COOPERATION IN NSO': A BRIEF DESCRIPTION BONGFEN CHEM-LANGHEE - SECTION III. THE COLONIAL IMPACT - 5. THE BAFUT AND THE GERMANS, 1889-1907 - MATTHIAS L. NIBA - 6. NSO' AND THE GERMANS: THE FIRST ENCOUNTERS IN CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS AND ORAL TRADITION - V.G. FANSO - E.M. CHILVER - 7. NATIVE ADMINISTRATION IN THE WEST CENTRAL CAMEROONS 1902-1954 E.M. CHILVER - SECTION IV. CONTINUITY AND COMPROMISE AT THE GRASSROOTS 8. A GIRL GROWING UP IN NSO': 1940-1943 - JEDIDA ASHERI - 9. LAND AND CULTIVATION RIGHTS IN NSO' IN THE NINETEEN FORTIES PHYLLIS M. KABERRY - 10. NUPTIALITY IN THE JAKIRI DISTRICT OF CAMEROON - DAN. N. LANTUM - SECTION V. - CONTINUITIES AT THE PALACE - 11. THE FON'S WIVES IN NSO' PAUL N. MZEKA - 12. NTO' NSO' AND ITS OCCUPANTS: PRIVILEGED ACCESS AND INTERNAL ORGANIZATION IN THE OLD AND NEW PALACES B. CHEM-LANGHEE VERKIJIKA G. FANSO E.M. CHILVER - AUTHORITY IN NTO' NSO' - 13 - THE AUTHORITY IN NTO' NGKAR - 14 - SECTION VI INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES - 15 - THE IDEOLOGY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GENDER - TRANSFER OF POWER AND B. CHEM-LANGH� WOMEN AND LAND IN NSO' MIRIAM GOHEEN - TRANSFER OF POWER AND VERKIJIKA G. FANSO B. CHEM-LANGH� - 16. THE NSO' AREA COOPERATIVE UNION - BONGFEN CHEM-LANGH� - SECTION VII. GENERAL PERSISTENCE - 17. NSO' TRADITIONAL MEDICAL AND MORTUARY CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES: A DESCRIPTION - B. CHEM-LANGH� - V.G. FANSO - 18. DEATH, AFTERLIFE AND FUNERARY RITUALS IN NSO': PRACTICE AND BELIEF IN A CHANGING SOCIETY - JOSEPH BANADZEM - SECTION VIII. IDEOLOGY AND CONFLICT - 19. CHIEFS, SUB-CHIEFS AND LOCAL CONTROL: NEGOTIATIONS OVER LAND, STRUGGLES OVER MEANING - MIRIAM GOHEEN