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Title: | In Search of Personal Mobility Changing Interpersonal Relations in Two Bamileke Chiefdoms, Cameroon |
Author: | Ouden, Jan H.B. den |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 57 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 3-27 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Cameroon |
Subjects: | social mobility Bamileke Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1160180 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1987-057-00-000001 |
Abstract: | Discussion of the incorporation of the people of two Bamileke chiefdoms - Tsa and Ngang - into wider economic and political systems, concentrating on the interactions and strategies of individuals. Among the issues dealt with are: the types of relations of dependency within the chiefdoms and the possibilities for manipulating them to further individual economic, political and social mobility; the effects of the commercialization of agriculture during both colonial and postcolonial periods; the opening up of areas outside the chiefdoms for trade and migration; the erosion of the chiefdom structure and its consequences for interpersonal relations and the possibilities for furthering individual and family interests. The author argues that, to some extent, the modern period has improved the prospects for self-advancement of Bamileke individuals and their immediate families. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French. |