There has been a long standing belief and misconception that 'relevant' history is shelved and can only be retrieved from written documentation. This conviction systematically diminished in importance with the emergence and approach of Africanist scholarship in the 1960s which increasingly exposed the pitfalls of religiously relying on paper- inscribed or engraved historical sources. This twist away from recorded history gave premium to a craving for the exploration and exploitation of material and immaterial heritage sources to understand and communicate connections between heritage and history in Africa. This compendium of interlacing themes on Cameroon threads the multiple but complex ways by which vestiges; natural and man-made, and social memory merges into confi guration of perspectives on historical representation of people, environment, and society in Africa. Designed in seven grand themes with a conceptual lead on heritage and presented in sixteen chapters, this book generally provides reliable non-documented sources that help construct the African indigenous knowledge as experienced by themselves from their heritage. This volume is highly recommended for use by scholars, students, practitioners, promoters and lovers of heritage values.
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Heritage and History in Africa
Social and Ethno-Historical Perspectives on Heritage Elements in Cameroon
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Social and Ethno-Historical Perspectives on Heritage Elements in Cameroon
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Notes on Contributors
- Table of Contents
- List of Plates
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Conceptualising Heritage
- 2 Theorizing heritage as history: Intersections with art, monuments and frameworks
- Cultural Heritage and Consequent Socio-Historical Responses
- 3 “Beyond Spectacles”: Langa’a Traditional Secret Masquerades of Bum
- 4 Traditional Arts of the Kom Fondom, of Bamenda Grassland of Cameroon
- 5 Cultural Taboos in Traditional Mbum Society 1902-2000
- Natural Sites & Built-In Socio-Historical Narratives
- 6 Environment and History in Africa: A Focus on the Cameroon Grassfields
- 7 Lake Oku and Lumetu Forest: Repositories and Embodiments of Oku Culture and Social Memory
- Socio-Historical Potentials and Constraints of Material Heritage
- 8 Bamenda Grassfields Art Collections and Museums: Origins, Typology, Functions and Symbolisms
- 9 The Buea Public Museum, 1975-2016
- 10 Roots and Routes of Archives and Archiving in Cameroon 1884-2016
- 11 The Development of the National Archives, Annex Buea (NAAB) 1959-2012; Half a Century of a Chequered History
- 12 Music as Source of Advocacy for Public Welfare and Integration in Cameroon, 1960-2011
- Monuments as Vestiges of Socio-Historical Construction
- 13 A General Survey of the Bimbia Slave Trade Market, South West Region of Cameroon
- 14 Public Legacies of a Defunct Historic Economic Cooperation in Cameroon: The Case of the Wum Area Development Authority(WADA) 1989-2016
- 15 German Tangible Heritage in Post-Colonial Cameroon: The Case of Buea South West Region
- Commemorations and National Historical Memory Dicing
- 16 Cameroon: Vagaries of a Collective National Historical Memory
- Back cover
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