
Masks and Staffs
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"Pelican's book is a fascinating descent into the dazzling complexities that ethnicity can take on even within a small area, and provides original and helpful tools for making sense of these complexities... [Her] observations make this book an inspiring example of how detailed ethnography can engender theoretical insights of a wider purport." * Africa Review"...necessary and significant, [this study is] a much-welcomed monograph that builds on and advances the corpus of knowledge about the evolution and dynamics of interethnic relations in the Cameroon Grasslands." * American Anthropologist
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Introduction
Chapter 1. Setting the Scene: Cultural Difference and Political Rivalry in Times of Transition
Chapter 2. The Power of the Fon: Nchaney Political History
Chapter 3. From Pastoral Society to Indigenous People: Mbororo Identity Politics
Chapter 4. A Shift to Economic Competition? Farmer-Herder Conflict and Cattle Theft in the Misaje Area
Chapter 5. On Being Hausa: Consolidation of the Hausa Ethnic Category in the Grassfields
Chapter 6. Grassfielder by Birth, Muslim by Choice: Religious and Ethnic Conversion
Chapter 7. The Murder of Mr X: Legal Pluralism and Conflict Management in the Early 2000s
Epilogue
Glossary
References
Index
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