In Search of Salt: Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society, 1880-1960

In Search of Salt: Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society, 1880-1960
ISBN-10
1782388842
ISBN-13
9781782388845
Category
Social Science
Pages
186
Language
English
Published
2006-08-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Frederick Quinn

Description

Relatively recent Bantu-speaking migrants to central Cameroon, the Beti have had an eventful history. Based on extensive interviews and traditional Beti (Fang) poetry, in addition to German and French archival sources, the author of this readable study recreates the social structure of the Beti and their self-perceptions in pre-colonial times, their disruptive encounters with first German (1880-1918) and then French (1918-1960) colonialism, until Cameroon’s independence.

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