Kingdom on Mount Cameroon - Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970 (Paperback, New edition)

" . . . collected in a single volume, these papers] become a rich case study of an African people's relations with various European agents over more than four centuries." - Choice " . . . a true treasure . . . challenging example of how history and anthropology can be combined in practice . . . such a combination can offer a deeper understanding of present-day issues and tensions." - Africa 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 administrators from Portugal, Holland, England, Jamaica, Sweden, Germany and more recently France. Edwin Ardener, the distinguished social anthropologist who spoke their language, wrote a number of studies on the history and culture of the Bakweri Kingdom. Some of the unpublished writings, and some of the published but now out of print materials are here brought together for the first time. The book covers the early contacts with the Portuguese and Dutch from the sixteenth century, the arrival of the missionaries in the nineteenth century, the dramatic defeat of the first German punitive expedition, the subsequent establishment by the Germans of the plantation system, and the British Trusteeship period until independence in 1961 as part of the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Cameroon Studies
Release date:	August 2003
First published:	2003
Editors:	Edwin Ardener • Shirley Ardener
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	404
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-57181-044-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	1-57181-044-7
Barcode:	9781571810441

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