TY - BOOK AU - Argenti,Nicolas ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The intestines of the state: youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields AV - DT571.O58 A74 2007eb U1 - 305.896/36 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Oku (African people) KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Social life and customs KW - Slavery KW - Cameroon KW - North-West Province KW - Marginality, Social KW - Young men KW - Attitudes KW - Psychology KW - North-West Province (Cameroon) KW - Social conditions KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-345) and index; Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history -- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10266029 ER -