Masks and Staffs

Masks and StaffsThe Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa provide a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of identity politics and interethnic relations. In the midst of the political liberalization of Cameroon in the late 1990s and 2000s, local responses to political and legal changes took the form of a series of performative and discursive expressions of ethnicity. Confrontational encounters

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drawing from the master composers of the era

interdisciplinary collection explores how and why

to put into language what history cannot contain

It uses qualitative data collected from rural households in Nigeria using in-depth interviews to understand the life history and experiences of smallholder women

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