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Title: The intestines of the state youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / Nicolas Argenti.
Main Entry: Argenti, Nicolas.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Publication Date: 2007.
Publication Place: Chicago :
ISBN: 9780226026114 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226026116 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226026121 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226026124 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject: Oku (African people) -- History.
Oku (African people) -- Politics and government.
Oku (African people) -- Social life and customs.
Slavery -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- History.
Marginality, Social -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- History.
Young men -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- Attitudes.
Young men -- Cameroon -- North-West Province -- Psychology.
North-West Province (Cameroon) -- History.
North-West Province (Cameroon) -- Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Contents: Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history -- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future.

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