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 bott...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798528906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
