Title Kingdom on Mount Cameroon : studies in the history of the Cameroon Coast, 1500-1970 / Edwin Ardener ; edited and with an introduction by Shirley Ardener

Published Providence, RI ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 1996 (2003 [printing])

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MELB	967.11 Ard/Kom		AVAILABLE

Description xx, 380 pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 22 cm Series Cameroon studies ; v. 1 Cameroon studies ; v. 1 Contents Documentary and linguistic evidence for the rise of the trading polities between Rio del Rey and Cameroon -- Kingdom on Mount cameroon: the Bakweri and the Europeans -- The plantations and the people of Victoria Division -- Bakweri fertility and marriage -- Witchcraft, economics and the continuity of belief -- The Bakweri elephant dance -- The boundaries of Kamerun and Cameroon Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index List of the author's works: pages [365]-367 Subject Kwiri (African people) -- History. Kwiri (African people) -- Social life and customs. Cameroon Mountain (Cameroon) -- Social life and customs. Cameroon Mountain Region (Cameroon) -- Social life and customs Author Ardener, Shirley. LC no. 96023830 ISBN 1571810447 1571819290 (t.p. verso)

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