The intestines of the state youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields /
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Chicago :
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2007.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10266029 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.