Kingdom on Mount Cameroon - Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970

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.

About the author

Shirley Ardener, a well-published social anthropologist, is a Senior Associate of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University. She was the founding director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, now the International Gender Studies Centre, of which she remains an active honorary member.

Summary

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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“ … 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

Product details

• Authors: Edwin Ardener, Shirley Ardener
• Assisted by: Edwin Ardener (Editor), Shirley Ardener (Editor), Ardener+ Edwin (Editor), Edwin Ardener† (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1996
• EAN: 9781571819291
• ISBN: 978-1-57181-929-1
• No. of pages: 404
• Weight: 689 g
• Series: Cameroon Studies; Series; 8; Cameroon Studies; Series; 8
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Anthropology (General), Colonial History