Lela in Bali (eBook)

Richard Fardon, Professor of West African Anthropology in the University of London, is the author of four monographs on West Africa, as well as numerous works of anthropological theory. Since 1988 he has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, where he chaired the University of London’s Centre of African Studies for eight years. In addition to its obvious archival sources, this book draws upon ethnographic research he began in Nigeria (from 1976) and in Cameroon (from 1984). Richard Fardon has been editor of the journal AFRICA since 2001.

Map and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Lela: Past Present, Present Past


Lela in the Early Post-Colony Bali

Nyonga: A Thumbnail History


Chapter 2. Lela in 1908: The Photographic Record


Lela and Voma in Bali

The Ethnologist and the Missionaries

Ankermann and the Missionaries

Photographed: The Second Photographer

The Texts and the Photographs

An Inventory of the Photographic Record of the 1908 Lela

Conclusion


Chapter 3. Lela: The Texts, 1890s to 1960s


The Missionaries’ Version 1903 to 1913

The Ethnologist’s Version 1907 to 1908

The Soldier’s and Trader’s Versions 1889 to 1906

Interlude: The Bali Axis Unravels

The Anthropologist and the Historian: A 1960s Version


Chapter 4. Lela: Incorporation, Ascendancy and the Means of Violence


The Ba’ni before the Germans T

he Apogee of Germano–Bali Majesty: The 1905 Paramountcy


Chapter 5. Lela in the Grassfields and the ‘Graffi’ in Lela: Or, More is More


The Importance of Origins

More is More

Lela Adopted in the Grassfields

Lela and Voma in the Bali kingdoms


Chapter 6. Lela Precedents: Beyond and Before the Grassfields


‘Spear Washing’ in the Benue Chamba

Chiefdoms: Flags, Gowns and Horses

Adamawan Elements in Lela: Death, Killing and Commemoration


Chapter 7. Fast forward: From Adamawa to Late Post-Colonial Cameroon

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