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The intestines of the state

by Argenti, Nicolas.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of Chicago Press, (Chicago :) Physical details: xviii, 362 p. : ill., maps.
Subject(s): Oku (African people) -- History. | Oku (African people) -- Politics and government. | Oku (African people) -- Social life and customs. | Slavery -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- History. | Marginality, Social -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- History. | Young men -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- Attitudes. | Young men -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- Psychology. | North-West Province (Cameroon) -- History. | North-West Province (Cameroon) -- Social conditions. | Electronic books.
Year: 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-345) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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