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

The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. For centuries the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial rulers. Today?s youth remain at the bottom of...

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1. Verfasser: Argenti, Nicolas
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Zusammenfassung:The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. For centuries the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial rulers. Today?s youth remain at the bottom of the fiercely hierarchical and polarized societies of the Grassfields, and it is their response to centuries of exploitation that Nicolas Argenti takes up in this absorbing and original book. Beginning his study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from the eighteenth century to the.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 362 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-345) and index.
ISBN:9780226026138
0226026132

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