Download or read book Jujus in the Forest Area of West Cameroon written by Peter Valentin and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jujus in the Forest Area of West Cameroon written by Peter Valentin and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 1980 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Everyday Life of the Poor in Cameroon written by Nathanael Ojong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed account of the lives of the poor, particularly their use of social networks to meet everyday needs. Based on fieldwork in Cameroon, the book provides a distinctive approach that draws on social network theory and insights from economic anthropology to shed light on how the poor make a living. Though embeddedness in social networks is essential to human achievement, we know little about the social and cultural forces and processes that shape poor people’s decisions to seek help from strong, weak, and disposable ties in an African context. Focusing on network practice rather than network structure, the author argues that the ability of poor people to meet their diverse needs rests on several elements, such as favourable interactions and social and cultural forces. He examines various issues crucial to the lives of the poor, such as food, shelter, healthcare, death and funerals, and access to finance. Particular focus is given to the complicated nature of social relationships, the different contexts where these relationships take place, and how these factors shape poor individuals’ decisions regarding whom to turn to when attempting to meet their needs, including how they actually meet those needs. This book will be of interest to researchers, teachers, students, and policy-makers in African Studies economics, development studies, sociology, and anthropology.

Download or read book Paths in the Rainforests written by Jan M. Vansina and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 1990-10-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vansina’s scope is breathtaking: he reconstructs the history of the forest lands that cover all or part of southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Congo, Zaire, the Central African Republic, and Cabinda in Angola, discussing the original settlement of the forest by the western Bantu; the periods of expansion and innovation in agriculture; the development of metallurgy; the rise and fall of political forms and of power; the coming of Atlantic trade and colonialism; and the conquest of the rainforests by colonial powers and the destruction of a way of life. “In 400 elegantly brilliant pages Vansina lays out five millennia of history for nearly 200 distinguishable regions of the forest of equatorial Africa around a new, subtly paradoxical interpretation of ‘tradition.’” —Joseph Miller, University of Virginia “Vansina gives extended coverage . . . to the broad features of culture and the major lines of historical development across the region between 3000 B.C. and A.D. 1000. It is truly an outstanding effort, readable, subtle, and integrative in its interpretations, and comprehensive in scope. . . . It is a seminal study . . . but it is also a substantive history that will long retain its usefulness.”—Christopher Ehret, American Historical Review

Download or read book Voice of the Leopard written by Ivor L. Miller and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross River basin. Instead, each settlement had its own lodge of the initiation society called Ékpè, or “leopard,” which was the highest indigenous authority. Ékpè lodges ruled local communities while also managing regional and long-distance trade. Cross River Africans, enslaved and forcibly brought to colonial Cuba, reorganized their Ékpè clubs covertly in Havana and Matanzas into a mutual-aid society called Abakuá, which became foundational to Cuba's urban life and music. Miller's extensive fieldwork in Cuba and West Africa documents ritual languages and practices that survived the Middle Passage and evolved into a unifying charter for transplanted slaves and their successors. To gain deeper understanding of the material, Miller underwent Ékpè initiation rites in Nigeria after ten years' collaboration with Abakuá initiates in Cuba and the United States. He argues that Cuban music, art, and even politics rely on complexities of these African-inspired codes of conduct and leadership. Voice of the Leopard is an unprecedented tracing of an African title-society to its Caribbean incarnation, which has deeply influenced Cuba's creative energy and popular consciousness.

Download or read book Where the Faith Has to Live written by Heinrich Balz and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book International African Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Missionary Motivations and Methods written by Jonas Nwiyende Dah and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Documenting and Researching Southern Africa written by Dag Henrichsen and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selected Library Acquisitions written by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book List of Titles Added to the Catalogue written by University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beitr ge zur Afrikakunde written by and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book It is No More a Cry written by Henning Melber and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry written by students at the United Nations Institute for Namibia (Lusaka), reflecting the hopes and commitment of the younger generation to the struggle for independence and national reconstruction in Namibia. The editor has contributed an introductory essay - "Colonialism, culture and resistance: the case of Namibia" (p. 11-23) - outlining the historical process and the ideological character of colonial rule in Namibia. He shows how non-European cultures were objects of violent conquest, and that the prevailing ideology denied any meaningful sense to the existence of indigenous cultures. In the present era, he argues, the aim of the National Party has been to integrate cultural aspects on a tribal basis as a tool of perpetuating colonial structures under the cover of "separate development". (Eriksen/Moorsom 1989).

Download or read book Promoting Partnerships written by Jo Abbot and published by IIED. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries written by Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evaluating Eden written by and published by IIED. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Witchcraft in Post colonial Africa written by Khaukanani Mavhungu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comparative ethnographic study of witchcraft and associated violence between the kingdoms of Kom and Venda in Cameroon and South Africa respectively. The book shows why despite its prevalence in both societies, witchcraft does not lead to open violence in Kom, while such large-scale violence is commonplace in Venda. It reveals that this difference can be explained by factors such as the variations in local ideas on witches, differences in the role of traditional authorities, and various state interventions on witchcraft matters. The book demonstrates, through a rich collection of detailed cases, that contrary to anthropological theory that views witchcraft as a mechanism for the expression and resolution of social tensions and conflicts, witchcraft may at times become a disturbance of amicable social relations. Witchcraft accusations may occur in a context where strained social relations have not preceded them. The knowledge and experience that people have about witchcraft is sufficient to trigger an accusation and a violent reaction. Different forms of witchcraft account for variations in witchcraft attributions and accusations. This comparison provides a valuable contribution to ongoing witchcraft policy discourse amid widespread citizen anxiety over witchcraft, and the increasing call on the post-colonial state to intervene and protect its citizens against occult aggression.