TY  - BOOK
AU  - Argenti, Nicolas.
TI  -  The intestines of the state: youth, violence, and belated histor ies in the Cameroon grassfields 
SN  - 9780226026121
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  - Young men
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Psychology
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 an d the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism an d the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, m asking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistanc e to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death o f tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing deat h : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the emb odied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the f uture
ER  -