Masks and staffs
Subtitle: identity politics in the Cameroon Grassfields
By: Michaela Pelican
Series: Integration and conflict studies -- volume 11
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781782387282; 9781782387299
Subjects: Political aspects; Ethnicity; Ethnic conflict; Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene : cultural difference and political rivalry in times of transition --; title: The power of the Fon : Nchaney political history --; title: From pastoral society to indigenous people : Mbororo identity politics --; title: A shift to economic competition? : Farmer-herder conflict and cattle theft in the Misaje area --; title: On being Hausa : consolidation of the Hausa ethnic category in the Grassfields --; title: Grassfielder by birth, Muslim by choice : religious and ethnic conversion --; title: The murder of Mr X : legal pluralism and conflict management in the early 2000s.