Regroupement’ and mobile societies
Two Cameroon cases
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8979508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Burnham (0000-0002-9017-0403, UCL Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 577-594 |
| Publication date | 1975-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700014560 |
| OpenAlex | W2171317975 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 9 |
This paper is a comparative study of the impact of colonial rule on two African societies, the Gbaya and the pastoral Fulani, inhabiting the Adamawa Plateau in central Cameroon. The main discussion focuses on the difficulties experienced by the French in their attempts to administer these two politically uncentralized and geographically mobile peoples. Geographical mobility was not the result of population pressure or other ecological constraint but was a political strategy and means of dispute regulation frequently employed by these societies living in a lightly populated region. Conflicting with this structural tendency towards mobility in both societies was the French policy of regroupement , the concentration and resettlement of subject peoples in stable villages. Examination of the historical record reveals that despite more or less stringent attempts on the part of the colonial powers to restructure Gbaya and pastoral Fulani societies along more politically amenable lines, these societies have changed little in this respect up to the present day and continue to pose the same problems of administration for the modern government of the United Republic of Cameroon
Archaeology · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Constraint (computer-aided design · Development economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Government (linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Population growth · Population pressure · Restructuring · Sociology · Subject (documents · African Studies and Geopolitics · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Demography · History · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Aspects of economic history
British West Africa and Liberia
Portuguese Africa
Islam
Doing Business in Cameroon
Belgian Africa
Aspects of economic history
The Maghrib
East Africa
British Central Africa
African cross-currents
French black Africa
The Cambridge History of Africa
Networks of (colonial) power
Snowmobile Revolution, Market Restoration, and Ecological Sustainability of Reindeer Herding
The Crumbling Fortress
Business Visibility and Taxation in Northern Cameroon
Comparative Study of Pastoral Property Regimes in Africa Offers No Support for Economic Defensibility Model
Theories of Nomadic Movement
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2019 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |