TY - BOOK ID - 5405259 TI - The intestines of the State : youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon Grassfields. PY - 2007 SN - 9780226026114 0226026116 9780226026121 0226026124 PB - Chicago University of Chicago press DB - UniCat KW - Marginality, Social KW - Oku (African people) KW - Slavery KW - Young men KW - History. KW - Politics and government. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Attitudes. KW - Psychology. KW - North-West Province (Cameroon) KW - Social conditions. KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - #SBIB:39A11 KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties KW - Esclavage KW - MarginaliteĢ KW - Jeunes hommes KW - Histoire KW - Attitudes KW - Psychologie KW - Nord-Ouest (Cameroun : Province) KW - Conditions sociales KW - Men KW - Young adults KW - Boys KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Slaves KW - Bamuku (African people) KW - Ethnology KW - Ibibio (African people) KW - Exclusion, Social KW - Marginal peoples KW - Social exclusion KW - Social marginality KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Culture conflict KW - Social isolation KW - Sociology KW - People with social disabilities KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Social life and customs KW - Psychology KW - Province du Nord-Ouest (Cameroon) KW - Northwest Province (Cameroon) KW - Enslaved persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5405259 AB - The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. For centuries the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial rulers. Today's youth remain at the bottom of the fiercely hierarchical and polarized societies of the Grassfields, and it is their response to centuries of exploitation that Nicolas Pandely Argenti takes up in this absorbing and original book. Beginning his study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from the eighteenth century to the present, Argenti pays special attention to the repeated violent revolts staged by young victims of political oppression. He then combines this history with extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Oku chiefdom, discovering that the specter of past violence lives on in the masked dance performances that have earned intense devotion from today's youth. Argenti contends that by evoking the imagery of past cataclysmic events, these masquerades allow young Oku men and women to address the inequities they face in their relations with elders and state authorities today. ER -