The Intestines of the State
Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6543258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicolas Argenti |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Intestines of the State (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7208/chicago/9780226026138.001.0001 |
| ISBN | 9780226026138 |
| Open Library | OL10191551M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 68 |
Beginning his study with a political analysis of youth in the Cameroon Grassfields from the 18th century to the present Argenti pays special attention to the repeatedly violent revolts staged by young victims of political oppression. He then traces the influence of this in the present-day dance rituals of the Oku chiefdom
20th century · Adolescents · Africa - General · Africa - West · Anthropology - Cultural · Archaeology · Armed conflict · c 1700 to c 1800 · c 1800 to c 1900 · Cameroon · Children · Cultural · Cultural And Social Anthropology · Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General · Oku (African people · Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights · Political oppression & persecution · Politics and government · Social life and customs · Social science · Sociology · West Africa - History · Anthropology · Africa · Africa, West · Anthropology, cultural · Attitudes · History · Marginality, social · Oku (African people) · politics and government · Psychology · Slavery · Social conditions · Social Marginality · Social Science · Young men
Verify if you are human
Cutting freedom down to size
Volunteering for a Job
Remembering violence. Anthropological perspectives on intergenerational transmission edited by Argenti, Nicolas and Katharina Schramm
Sources and methods
Forgetting Flooding
Ambitions of Bushfalling through Further Education
At work in the archive
National heroes or coming anarchy? Vigilant youth and the “war on terror” in Nigeria
Non-memory
Contesting public forgetting
Children and development II
Leveraging Alternatives
Présentation
La revue des livres
The Prestige Economy
Unsettling the coloniality of power
Cameroon and Rwanda
Masks and Masquerades
Artefakte und Erinnerung. Ein Beitrag zur Interpretation materieller Kultur in den afrokubanischen Religionen
Laughter Without Borders
German Pentecostal Witches and Communists
Building Creole Identity in the African Atlantic
Beach-Boy Elders' and 'Young Big-Men
Things that Don't Come by the Road
Introduction
Maisha ni kuvumiliya – patrimonialism, progress and the ambiguities of waiting in Goma, DR Congo
Mimesis
The shifting iconography of drinking horns in the Western Grassfields, Cameroon
Introduction
Scars, Marked Bodies, and Suffering
Do African Lives Matter to Black Lives Matter? Youth Uprisings and the Borders of Solidarity
A Lending Museum
Moving in time, out of step
Ethnographies of Austerity
Between Hollywood and Bandjoun
Archaeological data and oral traditions from the Oku and Kovifem sites in northwest Cameroon
Business Visibility and Taxation in Northern Cameroon
From sickness to history
Long shadow of the 'maquis
Youth leadership for development
Manyu youths, belonging and the antinomies of patrimonial elite politics in contemporary Cameroon
Masking and oral tradition in the re-enactment of village-based hierarchy among the acephalous Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria
A matter of time and contacts
La mémoire au prisme du politique
Ce n'est pas l'art pour l'art
La figure du « cadet » Grassfields
Remembering the Nation
Cameroonian Youths and the Protest of February 2008
Travelling Gods, Ritual Memory, and Slavery in Contemporary Benin
The drama(s) of Independence Day
Morts pour la France
Boundary Plants, the Social Production of Space, and Vegetative Agency in Agrarian Societies
Bodily/material culture and the fighter's subjectivity
Civilization, Violence and Heritage Healing in Liberia
Embracing the lived memory of genocide
Enregistering Modernity, Bluffing Criminality
Of substances, palaces, and museums
Wit and Greece's economic crisis
Animating the archive
Not a German past to be reckoned with
Children are the food sent by God
Brands as masks
Toward an Ethnography of Silence
Casts, bones and DNA
No Billionaire Left Behind
Communication technologies and legitimate consumption
Things of the Ground
| Citations per year | 3.78 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |