John M Cinnamon
Biographic Data
| ID | 243685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Cinnamon |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Cinnamon |
| SIGNATURE | CINNAMON J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Colonial anthropologies and the primordial imagination in equatorial Africa
This chapter traces a narrow path through equatorial equatorial rainforest of nineteenth- and later twentieth-century sources by following a set of key themes. It also traces Fang exceptionalism through the ethnographic record. The chapter focuses on the work of four key ethnographers: explorer and adventurer Paul Du Chaillu, Spiritain missionary Henri Trilles, and professional anthropologists Georges Balandier and James Fernandez. Nineteenth-cen…
American Presbyterian Missionaries, Enslavement, and Anti-Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Gabon
When American Presbyterian and Congregationalist missionaries arrived in the Gabon Estuary in the 1840s, they entered a world marked by vibrant commerce; violence and inequality; widespread slavery and slave-trading; British, French, and U.S. Anti-Slavery Patrols; and incipient French colonialism. This article draws on the published accounts by two U.S. missionaries, John Leighton Wilson, who served in Gabon from 1842 to 1851, and Robert Hamill N…
Spirits, Power and the Political Imagination in Late-Colonial Gabon
Through narratives of an anti-'fetish' movement that swept through north-eastern Gabon in the mid-1950s, the present article traces the contours of converging political and religious imaginations in that country in the years preceding independence. Fang speakers in the region make explicit connections between the arrival of post-Second World War electoral politics, the anti-fetish movements, and perceptions of political weakening and marginalizat…
Fieldwork, Orality, Text: Ethnographic and Historical Fields of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Gabon
I can claim no direct pedigree from African Studies at Wisconsin, but one of my own graduate school mentors, Robert Harms, benefitted from David Henige's and Jan Vansina's influence; all three have profoundly marked my own approaches to the historical anthropology of equatorial Africa. In this paper I draw on David Henige's illuminating and still relevant insights into the problem of “feedback,” in light of a key methodological preoccupation in m…
Introduction: Missionaries and Ethnography
Missionary Expertise, Social Science, and the uses of Ethnographic Knowledge in Colonial Gabon
Missionary ethnographers provided expert knowledge during the formative years of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century anthropology, but are generally relegated to the footnotes of academic anthropology. Colonial missionaries were, nevertheless, crucial producers of cultural practices, knowledge, and texts in the particular locations where they worked. Missionary linguists, for example, contributed to the standardization of regional variations …
Mobility, Genealogical Memory, and Constructions of Social Space in Northern Gabon
Ambivalent Power: Anti-Sorcery and Occult Subjugation in Late Colonial Gabon
Ambivalent Power: Anti-Sorcery and Occult Subjugation in Late Colonial Gabon John M. Cinnamon Introduction In 1955, five years prior to Gabonese independence, a powerful anti-sorcery movement swept through the villages of the northeastern Ogooué-Ivindo region. A man named Emane Boncoeur (alias Emane Nyangone; Nzang-Mvile) had come from Souanké in northern Moyen-Congo with two powerful spirits or medicines, Mimbare and Mademoiselle. He claimed to …
Peoples of North Africa. Peoples of East Africa. Peoples of West Africa. Peoples of Central Africa. Peoples of Southern Africa. Nations of Africa
Missionary Expertise, Social Science, and the uses of Ethnographic Knowledge in Colonial Gabon
Missionary ethnographers provided expert knowledge during the formative years of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century anthropology, but are generally relegated to the footnotes of academic anthropology. Colonial missionaries were, nevertheless, crucial producers of cultural practices, knowledge, and texts in the particular locations where they worked. Missionary linguists, for example, contributed to the standardization of regional variations …
Spirits, Power and the Political Imagination in Late-Colonial Gabon
Through narratives of an anti-'fetish' movement that swept through north-eastern Gabon in the mid-1950s, the present article traces the contours of converging political and religious imaginations in that country in the years preceding independence. Fang speakers in the region make explicit connections between the arrival of post-Second World War electoral politics, the anti-fetish movements, and perceptions of political weakening and marginalizat…
Fieldwork, Orality, Text: Ethnographic and Historical Fields of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Gabon
I can claim no direct pedigree from African Studies at Wisconsin, but one of my own graduate school mentors, Robert Harms, benefitted from David Henige's and Jan Vansina's influence; all three have profoundly marked my own approaches to the historical anthropology of equatorial Africa. In this paper I draw on David Henige's illuminating and still relevant insights into the problem of “feedback,” in light of a key methodological preoccupation in m…
Ambivalent Power: Anti-Sorcery and Occult Subjugation in Late Colonial Gabon
Ambivalent Power: Anti-Sorcery and Occult Subjugation in Late Colonial Gabon John M. Cinnamon Introduction In 1955, five years prior to Gabonese independence, a powerful anti-sorcery movement swept through the villages of the northeastern Ogooué-Ivindo region. A man named Emane Boncoeur (alias Emane Nyangone; Nzang-Mvile) had come from Souanké in northern Moyen-Congo with two powerful spirits or medicines, Mimbare and Mademoiselle. He claimed to …
Peoples of North Africa. Peoples of East Africa. Peoples of West Africa. Peoples of Central Africa. Peoples of Southern Africa. Nations of Africa
Ambivalent Power: Anti-Sorcery and Occult Subjugation in Late Colonial Gabon
Ambivalent Power: Anti-Sorcery and Occult Subjugation in Late Colonial Gabon John M. Cinnamon Introduction In 1955, five years prior to Gabonese independence, a powerful anti-sorcery movement swept through the villages of the northeastern Ogooué-Ivindo region. A man named Emane Boncoeur (alias Emane Nyangone; Nzang-Mvile) had come from Souanké in northern Moyen-Congo with two powerful spirits or medicines, Mimbare and Mademoiselle. He claimed to …
Mobility, Genealogical Memory, and Constructions of Social Space in Northern Gabon
Introduction: Missionaries and Ethnography
Missionary Expertise, Social Science, and the uses of Ethnographic Knowledge in Colonial Gabon
Missionary ethnographers provided expert knowledge during the formative years of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century anthropology, but are generally relegated to the footnotes of academic anthropology. Colonial missionaries were, nevertheless, crucial producers of cultural practices, knowledge, and texts in the particular locations where they worked. Missionary linguists, for example, contributed to the standardization of regional variations …
Fieldwork, Orality, Text: Ethnographic and Historical Fields of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Gabon
I can claim no direct pedigree from African Studies at Wisconsin, but one of my own graduate school mentors, Robert Harms, benefitted from David Henige's and Jan Vansina's influence; all three have profoundly marked my own approaches to the historical anthropology of equatorial Africa. In this paper I draw on David Henige's illuminating and still relevant insights into the problem of “feedback,” in light of a key methodological preoccupation in m…
Spirits, Power and the Political Imagination in Late-Colonial Gabon
Through narratives of an anti-'fetish' movement that swept through north-eastern Gabon in the mid-1950s, the present article traces the contours of converging political and religious imaginations in that country in the years preceding independence. Fang speakers in the region make explicit connections between the arrival of post-Second World War electoral politics, the anti-fetish movements, and perceptions of political weakening and marginalizat…
American Presbyterian Missionaries, Enslavement, and Anti-Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Gabon
When American Presbyterian and Congregationalist missionaries arrived in the Gabon Estuary in the 1840s, they entered a world marked by vibrant commerce; violence and inequality; widespread slavery and slave-trading; British, French, and U.S. Anti-Slavery Patrols; and incipient French colonialism. This article draws on the published accounts by two U.S. missionaries, John Leighton Wilson, who served in Gabon from 1842 to 1851, and Robert Hamill N…
Colonial anthropologies and the primordial imagination in equatorial Africa
This chapter traces a narrow path through equatorial equatorial rainforest of nineteenth- and later twentieth-century sources by following a set of key themes. It also traces Fang exceptionalism through the ethnographic record. The chapter focuses on the work of four key ethnographers: explorer and adventurer Paul Du Chaillu, Spiritain missionary Henri Trilles, and professional anthropologists Georges Balandier and James Fernandez. Nineteenth-cen…
History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works)