Mark Dike Delancey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1253593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Dike Delancey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark Dike |
| FAMILY NAME | Delancey |
| SIGNATURE | DELANCEY M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-4027-0660 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cameroon Grassfield States in the Broader History of Nigeria and Cameroon
The Grassfields constitutes a dynamic area covering primarily the Northwest and West regions of Cameroon. Considered by many to be the birthplace of the Bantu languages and a primary source of ancient sedentary cultures for Central Africa, the Grassfields witnessed the proliferation of a bewildering number of states beginning perhaps as early as the 16th century. Originally colonized by Germany, the fault line between the later British-controlled…
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon
Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic …
Claiming Sovereignty Through Equestrian Spectacle in Northern Cameroon
Sovereignty requires legitimacy of rule, and can therefore be contested by constituent members of a state. The historical legitimacy of traditional rulers within Cameroon constitutes a potential threat to state sovereignty. Traditional rulers employ art and performance as a means of garnering popular support, emphasizing their roles as cultural and religious leaders. The Islamic religious festival of Juulde Layhaaji as celebrated in Ngaoundéré, n…
Collecting, Collections, and Cultural Heritage in the Cameroon Grassfields
The current collection of articles grew out of a panel, entitled “Reconsidering the Grassfields,” that Jonathan Fine and I co-chaired at the Sixteenth ACASA Triennial Symposium on African Art held at the Brooklyn Museum in 2014. The panel sought to bring together scholars working on any facet of the arts in the Grassfields, an area of Cameroon comprising largely the Northwest and West Regions. Originally referencing this area’s terrain, the term …
Localizing Fulbe Architecture
Fulbe architecture of the Adamawa Region, Cameroon, and the Fouta Djallon region, Guinea, bear many formal similarities. Fulbe in Cameroon often point to architectural form as a marker of ethnic identity. Scholars have also perceived ethnicity, as well as Islam, as central to analyzing Fulbe architecture, drawing upon a now-outdated understanding of pulaaku , or Fulbeness. Instead, the Fulbe should more appropriately be perceived, especially in t…
Between Mosque and Palace
Entre la mosquée et le palace. Définir l'identité à travers les rituels NgaoundéréThis article examines the relationship of architecture and ritual practice during Friday Prayer in the northern Cameroonian city of Ngaoundéré. Every Friday, the ruler of Ngaoundéré, a sub-emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate in contemporary Cameroon, makes his way at the appointed hour across the public square that lies before his palace to lead prayer in the central mo…
African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective
This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates hi…
A Saint in the City
A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal. By Alien F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts; with Gassia Armenian and Ousmane Gueye. Los Angeles: University of California Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2003. Pp. 284; 274 illustrations. $45.00 paper. The exhibition catalog A Saint in the City focuses on the visual culture of the Mouridiyya, one of the four main Sufi traditions in contemporary Senegal. Founded upon the teachings of Sheikh Amad…
Vernacular architecture in Africa
Tent
"Texts, Interpretations, and Whitman's "Song of Myself
ARISTOTLE tells us that the rhetorician must be able to argue both sides of a question.1 The poets have responded to this demand all along. In the Odyssey, the suitors speak for the opposition, as do Satan and his crew in Paradise Lost. In Westerns, the opposition wears the black hats. Shorter forms such as the lyric often signify wrongheaded argument with a simple negative. Thy trivial harp, Emerson complains in the first lines of Merlin, will n…
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon
Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic …
Localizing Fulbe Architecture
Fulbe architecture of the Adamawa Region, Cameroon, and the Fouta Djallon region, Guinea, bear many formal similarities. Fulbe in Cameroon often point to architectural form as a marker of ethnic identity. Scholars have also perceived ethnicity, as well as Islam, as central to analyzing Fulbe architecture, drawing upon a now-outdated understanding of pulaaku , or Fulbeness. Instead, the Fulbe should more appropriately be perceived, especially in t…
"Texts, Interpretations, and Whitman's "Song of Myself
ARISTOTLE tells us that the rhetorician must be able to argue both sides of a question.1 The poets have responded to this demand all along. In the Odyssey, the suitors speak for the opposition, as do Satan and his crew in Paradise Lost. In Westerns, the opposition wears the black hats. Shorter forms such as the lyric often signify wrongheaded argument with a simple negative. Thy trivial harp, Emerson complains in the first lines of Merlin, will n…
Vernacular architecture in Africa
Tent
A Saint in the City
A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal. By Alien F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts; with Gassia Armenian and Ousmane Gueye. Los Angeles: University of California Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2003. Pp. 284; 274 illustrations. $45.00 paper. The exhibition catalog A Saint in the City focuses on the visual culture of the Mouridiyya, one of the four main Sufi traditions in contemporary Senegal. Founded upon the teachings of Sheikh Amad…
African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective
This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates hi…
Between Mosque and Palace
Entre la mosquée et le palace. Définir l'identité à travers les rituels NgaoundéréThis article examines the relationship of architecture and ritual practice during Friday Prayer in the northern Cameroonian city of Ngaoundéré. Every Friday, the ruler of Ngaoundéré, a sub-emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate in contemporary Cameroon, makes his way at the appointed hour across the public square that lies before his palace to lead prayer in the central mo…
Localizing Fulbe Architecture
Fulbe architecture of the Adamawa Region, Cameroon, and the Fouta Djallon region, Guinea, bear many formal similarities. Fulbe in Cameroon often point to architectural form as a marker of ethnic identity. Scholars have also perceived ethnicity, as well as Islam, as central to analyzing Fulbe architecture, drawing upon a now-outdated understanding of pulaaku , or Fulbeness. Instead, the Fulbe should more appropriately be perceived, especially in t…
Collecting, Collections, and Cultural Heritage in the Cameroon Grassfields
The current collection of articles grew out of a panel, entitled “Reconsidering the Grassfields,” that Jonathan Fine and I co-chaired at the Sixteenth ACASA Triennial Symposium on African Art held at the Brooklyn Museum in 2014. The panel sought to bring together scholars working on any facet of the arts in the Grassfields, an area of Cameroon comprising largely the Northwest and West Regions. Originally referencing this area’s terrain, the term …
Claiming Sovereignty Through Equestrian Spectacle in Northern Cameroon
Sovereignty requires legitimacy of rule, and can therefore be contested by constituent members of a state. The historical legitimacy of traditional rulers within Cameroon constitutes a potential threat to state sovereignty. Traditional rulers employ art and performance as a means of garnering popular support, emphasizing their roles as cultural and religious leaders. The Islamic religious festival of Juulde Layhaaji as celebrated in Ngaoundéré, n…
The Cameroon Grassfield States in the Broader History of Nigeria and Cameroon
The Grassfields constitutes a dynamic area covering primarily the Northwest and West regions of Cameroon. Considered by many to be the birthplace of the Bantu languages and a primary source of ancient sedentary cultures for Central Africa, the Grassfields witnessed the proliferation of a bewildering number of states beginning perhaps as early as the 16th century. Originally colonized by Germany, the fault line between the later British-controlled…
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon
Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic …
History (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Ancient history (3 works)