Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast, 1500-1970" . . . 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 Some of the unpublished writings, and some of the published but now out of print materials are here brought together for the first time.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. |
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Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast ... Edwin Ardener Limited preview - 1996 |
Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast ... Edwin Ardener No preview available - 1996 |
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Acqua administrative Ambos appears Bakolle Bakweri Bakweri villages Balong Bamboko Bamenda Bamileke banana Bantu Baptist Barbot Basel Mission belief Bimbia Bonjongo Bota boundary bride-price British Bwea Cameroon Mountain Cameroonians Cameroons Development Corporation Cameroons River Chief cocoyams colonial Dapper divorce Dr Preuss Duala East economic Efik Endeley established estuary expedition federal Fernando Fernando Po fertility Foncha French German Government Governor Gravenreuth immigrants indigenous island Isubu Kamerun King Kumba Kuva Kuva's labour land later Likenye living Lower Buea mainland males Manga marriage Merrick Missionary Mongo Mount Cameroon native areas Nigeria nyongo Office Old Calabar Pacheco period plantation political population Portuguese present problems prostitution Puttkamer refer Republic reunification Rio del Rey S. G. Ardener settlement Soden Soppo Southern Cameroons Stetten territory Tiko town trade treaty tribal tribes unions Upper Buea Valdau Victoria Division Village Group West Africa West Cameroon witchcraft women Wovea Yaounde