Mitzi Goheen
Biographic Data
| ID | 131212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mitzi Goheen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mitzi |
| FAMILY NAME | Goheen |
| SIGNATURE | GOHEEN M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Africa in the Age of Obama
With the inclusion of the following commentaries, "Africa in the Age of Obama," the African Studies Review breaks one of its cardinal rules of not accepting opinion pieces on current issues for publication. However, there is always an exception to any rule.These three articles, originally presented at the Plenary Session of the 51st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, present ideas of sufficient significance and centrality to Afric…
Introduction
This Special Issue is the condensation of an author-meets-critics double panel organized for the African Studies Association meeting in Washington, D.C., in November 2005, on Jane Guyer's challenging book Marginal Gains-Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa. The book was published in the first half of 2004, and when the three of us met in the fall of that year, we all felt it was a text that lent itself especially well to such a session. One o…
Women of the Grassfields
This classic ethnography examines the social and economic position of women in Bamena, British Cameroons, in 1944. The field study was prompted by the conditions in Bamenda, when despite considerable natural resources, there was underpopulation, a very high infant mortality, and the status of women was very low. This rich and engaging study looks at all aspects of life in Bamena, and includes a number of original photographs
Power and the quest for recognition
This article investigates the nature and structure of linkages between the urban elite and local institutions in their home villages in the Nso' area of north-west Cameroon. It argues that indigenous institutions provide a frame of reference for the negotiation of identity and the provision of security in a context where state institutions seem to have lost their raison d'être. The notion of a home village has become a defining factor in the urba…
Introduction. Understanding African Land-Holding
Africa is the region with the sparsest overall population, but to infer that Africa has no problems of rural land shortage would be quite wrong. The continent has the highest and fastest-rising rate of population growth—lately over 3 per cent annually—and the distribution of people across the continent is quite uneven. At least as far as rain-fed lands are concerned, some of its local densities already count among the world's highest. Several of …
Chiefs, subchiefs and local control
Control over and access to land in Nso, Cameroon, has always depended on social identity. Control over land is a central symbol of leadership, both historically and today. Since the mid-1970s the Cameroonian state has instituted land ordinances and stressed privatisation and land titling, while Nso ideology has continued to emphasise access to land as a right of Nso citizenship. The contradictions set up by these two differing views are exacerbat…
Bridewealth and Dowry Revisited
Introduction. Understanding African Land-Holding
Africa is the region with the sparsest overall population, but to infer that Africa has no problems of rural land shortage would be quite wrong. The continent has the highest and fastest-rising rate of population growth—lately over 3 per cent annually—and the distribution of people across the continent is quite uneven. At least as far as rain-fed lands are concerned, some of its local densities already count among the world's highest. Several of …
Bridewealth and Dowry Revisited
Chiefs, subchiefs and local control
Control over and access to land in Nso, Cameroon, has always depended on social identity. Control over land is a central symbol of leadership, both historically and today. Since the mid-1970s the Cameroonian state has instituted land ordinances and stressed privatisation and land titling, while Nso ideology has continued to emphasise access to land as a right of Nso citizenship. The contradictions set up by these two differing views are exacerbat…
Power and the quest for recognition
This article investigates the nature and structure of linkages between the urban elite and local institutions in their home villages in the Nso' area of north-west Cameroon. It argues that indigenous institutions provide a frame of reference for the negotiation of identity and the provision of security in a context where state institutions seem to have lost their raison d'être. The notion of a home village has become a defining factor in the urba…
Introduction
This Special Issue is the condensation of an author-meets-critics double panel organized for the African Studies Association meeting in Washington, D.C., in November 2005, on Jane Guyer's challenging book Marginal Gains-Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa. The book was published in the first half of 2004, and when the three of us met in the fall of that year, we all felt it was a text that lent itself especially well to such a session. One o…
Bridewealth and Dowry Revisited
Introduction. Understanding African Land-Holding
Africa is the region with the sparsest overall population, but to infer that Africa has no problems of rural land shortage would be quite wrong. The continent has the highest and fastest-rising rate of population growth—lately over 3 per cent annually—and the distribution of people across the continent is quite uneven. At least as far as rain-fed lands are concerned, some of its local densities already count among the world's highest. Several of …
Chiefs, subchiefs and local control
Control over and access to land in Nso, Cameroon, has always depended on social identity. Control over land is a central symbol of leadership, both historically and today. Since the mid-1970s the Cameroonian state has instituted land ordinances and stressed privatisation and land titling, while Nso ideology has continued to emphasise access to land as a right of Nso citizenship. The contradictions set up by these two differing views are exacerbat…
Power and the quest for recognition
This article investigates the nature and structure of linkages between the urban elite and local institutions in their home villages in the Nso' area of north-west Cameroon. It argues that indigenous institutions provide a frame of reference for the negotiation of identity and the provision of security in a context where state institutions seem to have lost their raison d'être. The notion of a home village has become a defining factor in the urba…
Women of the Grassfields
This classic ethnography examines the social and economic position of women in Bamena, British Cameroons, in 1944. The field study was prompted by the conditions in Bamenda, when despite considerable natural resources, there was underpopulation, a very high infant mortality, and the status of women was very low. This rich and engaging study looks at all aspects of life in Bamena, and includes a number of original photographs
Introduction
This Special Issue is the condensation of an author-meets-critics double panel organized for the African Studies Association meeting in Washington, D.C., in November 2005, on Jane Guyer's challenging book Marginal Gains-Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa. The book was published in the first half of 2004, and when the three of us met in the fall of that year, we all felt it was a text that lent itself especially well to such a session. One o…
Africa in the Age of Obama
With the inclusion of the following commentaries, "Africa in the Age of Obama," the African Studies Review breaks one of its cardinal rules of not accepting opinion pieces on current issues for publication. However, there is always an exception to any rule.These three articles, originally presented at the Plenary Session of the 51st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, present ideas of sufficient significance and centrality to Afric…
Sociology (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)