KINGDOM ON MOUNT CAMEROON
Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970
Edwin Ardener
Shirley Ardener (Ed.), Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, Oxford
" ... collected in a single volume, [these papers] become a rich case study of an African people'srelations with various European agents over more than four centuries." Choice
" ... a true treasure ... challenging example of how history and anthropology can be combined inpractice ... such a combination can offer a deeper understanding of present-day issues andtensions." Africa
The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a fewdegrees north of the equator, have had a varied and at times exciting history which has broughtthem into contact, not only with other West African peoples, but with merchants, missionaries,soldiers and administrators form Portugal, Holland, England, Jamaica, Sweden, Germany andmore recently France. Edwin Ardener, the distinguished social anthropologist who spoke theirlanguage, wrote a number of studies on the history and culture of the Bakweri Kingdom. Someof the unpublished writings, and some of the published but now out of print materials are herebrought together for the first time. The book covers the early contacts with the Portuguese andDutch from the sixteenth century, the arrival of the missionaries in the nineteenth century, thedramatic defeat of the first German punitive expedition, the subsequent establishment by theGermans of the plantation system, and the British Trusteeship period until independence in 1961as part of the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1996. 400 pages, 4 maps., 1 fig., 9 ills, 4 app., bibliog., index
ISBN 1-57181-929-0 hardback $59.95/£40.00
Volume 1, Cameroon Studies
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