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12 produkter
Kingdom on Mount Cameroon
Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970
Av Edwin Ardener, Shirley Ardener
Häftad, 2003
618 kr
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The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a few degrees north of the equator, have had a varied and at times exciting history which has brought them into contact, not only with other West African peoples, but with merchants, missionaries, soldiers and …
Cameroon's Tycoon
Max Esser's Expedition and its Consequences
Av E.M. Chilver, Ute Röschenthaler
Häftad, 2002
560 kr
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Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896 he ventured, with the …
Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923
Trade and Travel, People and Politics
Häftad, 2002
560 kr
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The 1880's were a critical time in Cameroon. A German warship arrived in the Douala estuary and proclaimed Cameroon a protectorate. At that time, two Swedes, Knutson and Waldau, were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. Very little is known about their activities. One of them, …
Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923
Trade and Travel, People and Politics
Inbunden, 2002
1996 kr
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The 1880s were a critical time in Cameroon. A German warship arrived in the Douala estuary and proclaimed Cameroon a protectorate. At that time, two Swedes, Knutson and Waldau, were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. Very little is known about their activities. One, Knutson, wrote …
Memoirs of a Mbororo
The Life of Ndudi Umaru: Fulani Nomad of Cameroon
Inbunden, 2003
2040 kr
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This remarkable book recounts the life of Ndudi Umaru, a pastoral nomadic Fulani, who was born in the Nigeria-Cameroon border zone, but spent most of his life in Cameroon where he was treated for leprosy. Left to his own devices at an early age—his illness having separated him from his kith and …
African Crossroads
Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon
Inbunden, 1996
1979 kr
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Cameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This collection of essays by eminent historians and anthropologists summarizes three generations of research in Cameroon that began with the collaboration of Phyllis Kaberry and E. M. Chilver soon after …
African Crossroads
Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon
Häftad, 1996
526 kr
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Cameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This collection of essays by eminent historians and anthropologists summarizes three generations of research in Cameroon that began with the collaboration of Phyllis Kaberry and E. M. Chilver soon after …
Kingdom on Mount Cameroon
Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970
Av Edwin Ardener, Shirley Ardener
Inbunden, 1996
2186 kr
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The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a few degrees north of the equator, have had a varied and at times exciting history which has brought them into contact, not only with other West African peoples, but with merchants, missionaries, soldiers and …
Cameroon's Tycoon
Max Esser's Expedition and its Consequences
Av E.M. Chilver, Ute Röschenthaler
Inbunden, 2001
1975 kr
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Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896 he ventured, with the …
In Search of Salt
Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society, 1880-1960
Inbunden, 2006
1916 kr
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Relatively recent Bantu-speaking migrants to central Cameroon, the Beti have had an eventful history. Based on extensive interviews and traditional Beti (Fang) poetry, in addition to German and French archival sources, the author of this readable study recreates the social structure of the Beti and …
Lela in Bali
History through Ceremony in Cameroon
Inbunden, 2006
1916 kr
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Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of …
Encounter, Transformation, and Identity
Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands, 1891-2000
Av Ian Fowler, Verkijika G. Fanso
Inbunden, 2009
1979 kr
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Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West Province of Cameroon and the Nigerian borderlands, this volume presents critical and analytical approaches to the production of ethnic, political, religious, and gendered identities in the …
