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

• 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.

Ämnesord

Oku (African people)  -- History. (LCSH)

Oku (African people)  -- Politics and government. (LCSH)

Oku (African people)  -- Social life and customs. (LCSH)

Slavery  -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- History. (LCSH)

Marginality, Social  -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- History. (LCSH)

Young men  -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- Attitudes. (LCSH)

Young men  -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- Psychology. (LCSH)

North-West Province (Cameroon)  -- History. (LCSH)

North-West Province (Cameroon)  -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

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