The intestines of the state youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields /

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1. Verfasser: Argenti, Nicolas
Körperschaft: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.