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KINGDOM ON MOUNT CAMEROON
STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE CAMEROON COAST, 1500-1970 |
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Edwin Ardener, Shirley Ardener (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£107.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1571819290 |
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9781571819291 |
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BERGHAHN BOOKS, INCORPORATED |
Pub. date: |
1 July, 1996 |
Series: |
Cameroon Studies v. 1 |
Pages: |
400 |
Description: |
A collection of social anthropologist Ardener's papers concerning the Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon on the coast of West Africa. The studies of the culture and history of the Cameroon Kingdom cover the Bakweri's early contacts with the Portuguese, the defeat of the first German expedition... |
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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 Some of the unpublished writings, and some of the published but now out of print materials are here brought together for the first time.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. |
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4 maps, 1 fig., 9 ills, 4 appendices, Bibliog., Index |
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US |
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Berghahn Books, Incorporated |
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