Ian Fowler
Biographic Data
| ID | 226455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Fowler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Fowler |
| SIGNATURE | FOWLER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Maine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Zero Degrees
Sally Chilver, 1914-2014
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Kingdoms of the Cameroon Grassfields
The three volumes considered here offer significant contributions to studies of African kingship and contribute to an emergent political anthropology of the Grassfields. Each adopts an approach on a sliding scale of emphasis on evidence and interpretation. Fardon takes a strongly evidence-based approach, reflecting recent methodological concerns in anthropology, which invites challenge and dialogue. Warnier presents an innovative methodological p…
The intestines of the state
African Crossroads
Chapter 1. The Catalyst: Chilver at the Crossroads S. Ardener Chapter 2. The Grassfields and the Tikar I. Fowler and D. Zeitlyn Chapter 3. The Person, Ethnicity and the Problem of Identity in West Africa R. Fardon Chapter 4. Political Relations and the Eastern Marches of Adamawa in the late 19th Century P. Burnham Chapter 5. Mythic Transformation and Historical Continuity: the Duala of Cameroon and German Colonialism, 1884-1914 R. A. Austen Chapt…
Kingdom on Mount Cameroon
African Crossroads
Cameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This collection of essays by eminent historians and anthropologists summarizes three generations of research in Cameroon that began with the collaboration of Phyllis Kaberry and E. M. Chilver soon after the Second World War and continues to this day. The idea for this book arose from a concern to recognize the continuing influence of E. M. Chilver on a…
African Crossroads
African Sacred Kings
In a paper published in 1962 Phyllis Kaberry drew attention to the elaborate nature of political organization in the Bamenda of Cameroon and referred to the unique combination of sacred kingship and palace societies vested with retainer functions. The political institutions that she considered gave these kingdoms a distinctive, Grassfields character to African sacred kingship: social distinctions among royals, commoners, tributaries, and slaves; …
A Nineteenth-Century Ruhr in Central Africa
Opening ParagraphOver two hundred thousand cubic metres of slag and smelting debris, at least two hundred and seventy smelting sites, more than seven hundred recorded kaolin pits for building and lining furnaces, and probably half as many again not visited by us-these are a few figures that establish three villages of the Ndop Plain, in the highlands of Western Cameroon, as a nineteenth-century Ruhr in Central Africa. To this day, this all Sub-Sa…
A Nineteenth-Century Ruhr in Central Africa
Opening ParagraphOver two hundred thousand cubic metres of slag and smelting debris, at least two hundred and seventy smelting sites, more than seven hundred recorded kaolin pits for building and lining furnaces, and probably half as many again not visited by us-these are a few figures that establish three villages of the Ndop Plain, in the highlands of Western Cameroon, as a nineteenth-century Ruhr in Central Africa. To this day, this all Sub-Sa…
African Crossroads
Chapter 1. The Catalyst: Chilver at the Crossroads S. Ardener Chapter 2. The Grassfields and the Tikar I. Fowler and D. Zeitlyn Chapter 3. The Person, Ethnicity and the Problem of Identity in West Africa R. Fardon Chapter 4. Political Relations and the Eastern Marches of Adamawa in the late 19th Century P. Burnham Chapter 5. Mythic Transformation and Historical Continuity: the Duala of Cameroon and German Colonialism, 1884-1914 R. A. Austen Chapt…
Kingdom on Mount Cameroon
Kingdoms of the Cameroon Grassfields
The three volumes considered here offer significant contributions to studies of African kingship and contribute to an emergent political anthropology of the Grassfields. Each adopts an approach on a sliding scale of emphasis on evidence and interpretation. Fardon takes a strongly evidence-based approach, reflecting recent methodological concerns in anthropology, which invites challenge and dialogue. Warnier presents an innovative methodological p…
African Sacred Kings
In a paper published in 1962 Phyllis Kaberry drew attention to the elaborate nature of political organization in the Bamenda of Cameroon and referred to the unique combination of sacred kingship and palace societies vested with retainer functions. The political institutions that she considered gave these kingdoms a distinctive, Grassfields character to African sacred kingship: social distinctions among royals, commoners, tributaries, and slaves; …
Zero Degrees
A Nineteenth-Century Ruhr in Central Africa
Opening ParagraphOver two hundred thousand cubic metres of slag and smelting debris, at least two hundred and seventy smelting sites, more than seven hundred recorded kaolin pits for building and lining furnaces, and probably half as many again not visited by us-these are a few figures that establish three villages of the Ndop Plain, in the highlands of Western Cameroon, as a nineteenth-century Ruhr in Central Africa. To this day, this all Sub-Sa…
African Sacred Kings
In a paper published in 1962 Phyllis Kaberry drew attention to the elaborate nature of political organization in the Bamenda of Cameroon and referred to the unique combination of sacred kingship and palace societies vested with retainer functions. The political institutions that she considered gave these kingdoms a distinctive, Grassfields character to African sacred kingship: social distinctions among royals, commoners, tributaries, and slaves; …
African Crossroads
Cameroon is characterized by an extraordinary geographical, cultural, and linguistic diversity. This collection of essays by eminent historians and anthropologists summarizes three generations of research in Cameroon that began with the collaboration of Phyllis Kaberry and E. M. Chilver soon after the Second World War and continues to this day. The idea for this book arose from a concern to recognize the continuing influence of E. M. Chilver on a…
African Crossroads
Kingdom on Mount Cameroon
African Crossroads
Chapter 1. The Catalyst: Chilver at the Crossroads S. Ardener Chapter 2. The Grassfields and the Tikar I. Fowler and D. Zeitlyn Chapter 3. The Person, Ethnicity and the Problem of Identity in West Africa R. Fardon Chapter 4. Political Relations and the Eastern Marches of Adamawa in the late 19th Century P. Burnham Chapter 5. Mythic Transformation and Historical Continuity: the Duala of Cameroon and German Colonialism, 1884-1914 R. A. Austen Chapt…
The intestines of the state
Kingdoms of the Cameroon Grassfields
The three volumes considered here offer significant contributions to studies of African kingship and contribute to an emergent political anthropology of the Grassfields. Each adopts an approach on a sliding scale of emphasis on evidence and interpretation. Fardon takes a strongly evidence-based approach, reflecting recent methodological concerns in anthropology, which invites challenge and dialogue. Warnier presents an innovative methodological p…
Sally Chilver, 1914-2014
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Zero Degrees
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