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The Good, the Bad, and the Beautifulby Barry Hallen
Indiana University Press 2000; US$ 14.35The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture Barry Hallen Reveals everyday language as the key to understanding morals and ethics in Yoruba culture. "This contrasts with any suggestion that in Yoruba or, more generally, African society, moral thinking manifests nothing much more than a supine acquiescence in long established communal values.... Hallen renders a great service to African philosophy." -- Kwasi Wiredu In Yoruba culture, morality and moral values are intimately linked to aesthetics. The purest expression of beauty, at least for human beings, is to possess good moral... more...
Middlemen of the Cameroons Riversby Ralph Derrick; Ralph A. Austen; Jonathan Derrick; David Anderson; Carolyn Brown; Christopher Clapham; Michael Gomez; Patrick Manning; David Robinson
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 32.00This is a book about 'middlemen': Africans who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over 300 years. Based on written and oral sources, it follows the Duala, a critical community, from precolonial history to the end of colonialism, covering both German and French colonial role. more...
The Intestines of the Stateby Nicolas Argenti
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00The 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 bottom of the fiercely hierarchical and polarized societies of the Grassfields, and it is their response to centuries of exploitation that Nicolas Argenti takes up in this absorbing and original book. Beginning his study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from the eighteenth century to the present, Argenti pays special attention to the repeated violent revolts staged by young victims of political oppression. He then combines this... more...
Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Konkordanz zu Band VIII-XI (B.L. Konkordanz II)by M. J. Bakker
BRILL 2007; US$ 719.00The Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten is a tool of outstanding importance for anyone publishing or studying Greek papyrus documents. The new Konkordanz zu Berichtigungsliste Band VIII-XIfacilitates finding corrections to published papyri and includes the CD-ROM edition of B.L. volumes I to XI in making the material instantly accessible using a wide range of quick-search criteria. more...
The Pot-Kingby Jean-Pierre Warnier
BRILL 2007; US$ 105.00The king of Mankon (Cameroon) acts as a container of ancestral substances he distributes to his people. This book shows how the exercise of power in a contemporary African kingdom is based on the implementation of bodily and material technologies. more...
Culture and Customs of Cameroonby JOHN MUKUM MBAKU
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 73.00Cameroon, in Central Africa, has been called Africa in miniature. It is characterized by exceptional social and ethnic diversity, with more than 250 ethnicities now forming five major regional-culture groupings. This volume is the first to encapsulate Cameroon's rich indigenous and modern customs and traditions in depth. The narrative emphasizes those aspects that define its modern nation, its peoples, the unique societies, their institutions, and various lifestyles. The origins of Cameroon's diverse culture are traced back to the various ethnic groups and languages as well as the influence of European colonialism, Christianity, Islam, and other external factors, including globalization. In each topical chapter, examples from ethnic groups... more...
Symbolic Structuresby Nigel Barley
Cambridge University Press 1983; US$ 26.00The book is a detailed study of the symbolic universe of the Dowayos of north Cameroon. more...
Fulbe Voicesby Helen A. Regis
Westview Press 2002; US$ 34.00Attending to everyday conversations and embodied performances about Islam, marriage, medicine, and Fulbe identity, Fulbe Voices provides a richly textured exploration of the dynamics of cultural diversity in a village in Cameroon. more...
Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptby Margaret R. Bunson
Infobase Publishing 2012; US$ 95.00Praise for the previous edition:. ..".recommended for high-school and public libraries and for smaller academic libraries needing a quick and current Egyptology reference...a good single-volume introduction to the topic." Booklist. ..".contains a wealth of information on ancient Egypt...Recommended." Library Media Connection. Ranging from Egypt's predynastic cultures to the suicides of Cleopatra and Marc Antony in 30 BCE, Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, Third Edition includes more than 2,300 detailed entries, each thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect recent advances in scholarship. In addition to the latest discoveries and excavations, new front and back matter items have been added to this comprehensive resource,... more...
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