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The forge and the funeral : the Smith in Kapsiki/higi culture
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ISBN: 1609174534 9781609174538 9781611861662 1611861667 Year: 2015 Publisher: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press,

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Throughout Africa one craft among many stands out: that of the blacksmith. In many African cultures, smiths occupy a significant position, not just as artisans engaging in a difficult craft but also as special people. Often they perform other crafts, as well, and make up a somewhat separate group inside society. The Forge and the Funeral describes the position of the smith in the culture of the Kapsiki/Higi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria. Situated in the Mandara Mountains and straddling the border of these two countries, Kapsiki culture forms a specific and highly relevant example of the phenomenon of the smith in Africa. As an endogamous group of about 5 percent of the population, Kapsiki smiths perform an impressive array of crafts and specializations, combining magico-religious functions with metalwork, in particular as funeral directors, as well as with music and healing. The Forge and the Funeral gives an intimate description and analysis of this group, based upon the author's four decades-long involvement with the Kapsiki/Higi. Description and analysis are set within the more general scholarly debates about the dynamics of professional closure - including the notions of caste and guild - and also consider the deep history of iron and brass in Africa.


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Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs : Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grasslands
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ISBN: 0472904256 Year: 1999 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

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"Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs examines the symbolic language of food, fertility, and infertility to illuminate the dynamics of social and cultural disintegration in a small, mountainous African kingdom." "In the Cameroon grassfields, an area of high fertility, women hold a paradoxical fear of infertility. By combining symbolic, political-economic, and historical analyses, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg traces the way reproductive threat is invoked in struggles over gender and ethnic identities." "Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs should appeal to a broad audience in medical anthropology, public health, African studies, and women's studies as well as to development planners and population scientists."--Jacket

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Fertilite humaine --- Femmes --- Sociale status. --- Voortplanting (biologie) --- Vrouwen. --- Bangangte. --- Population. --- Manners and customs. --- Human reproduction. --- Fertility, Human. --- Ethnology. --- Ethnologie. --- Reproduction humaine --- Fecondite humaine --- Femmes bangangte --- Women --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Infertility, Female --- Human reproduction --- Fertility, Human --- Women, Ngangte --- Sante et hygiene. --- Psychologie. --- Identite ethnique. --- psychology --- ethnology --- Health and hygiene. --- Psychology. --- Ethnic identity. --- Bangangte --- Kamerun --- Africa --- Maham (Cameroun) --- Cameroon --- Bangangte (Kingdom) --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Social life and customs. --- Ngangte women --- Human fertility --- Natality --- Demography --- Infertility --- Human physiology --- Reproduction --- Reproductive health --- Reproductive rights --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Cultural Anthropology --- Material Culture --- Culture, Material --- Ethnographies --- Material Cultures --- Qualitative Research --- Ceremonies --- Customs, Social --- Folkways --- Social customs --- Social life and customs --- Traditions --- Usages --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Etiquette --- Rites and ceremonies --- Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Economics --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Malthusianism --- Attitude envers les femmes --- Et les femmes --- Femme --- Relations avec les femmes --- Architecture et femmes --- Beauté féminine --- Femmes et diplomatie --- Femmes et ésotérisme --- Femmes et forces armées --- Femmes et guerre --- Femmes et justice --- Femmes et littérature --- Femmes et mafia --- Femmes et mer --- Femmes et musique --- Femmes et paix --- Femmes et politique --- Femmes et religion --- Femmes et technologie --- Femmes et urbanisme --- Homme --- Internet et femmes --- Matriarcat --- Médias et femmes --- Prénoms féminins --- Crimes contre les femmes --- Psychanalyse et femmes --- Travail des femmes --- Vêtements de femme --- Éducation des femmes --- Études sur les femmes --- Féminisme --- Féminité --- Aventurières --- Bienfaitrices --- Ex-prostituées --- Femmes abandonnées --- Femmes âgées --- Femmes artistes --- Femmes ascètes --- Femmes au foyer --- Femmes autochtones --- Femmes automobilistes --- Femmes chamanes --- Femmes coolies --- Brus --- Femmes copistes --- Femmes critiques d'art --- Femmes d'âge moyen --- Femmes dans la vie publique --- Femmes diplômées --- Femmes du monde --- Femmes enceintes --- Femmes esclaves --- Femmes fatales --- Collectionneuses d'art --- Femmes imams --- Femmes mariées --- Femmes mystiques --- Femmes nullipares --- Femmes pédophiles --- Femmes philosophes --- Femmes préhistoriques --- Femmes rabbins --- Femmes seules --- Femmes surdouées --- Consommatrices --- Femmes tondues --- Femmes victimes de violence --- Filles --- Guérisseuses --- Guerrières --- Handicapées --- Héroïnes --- Hôtesses --- Immigrées --- Impératrices --- Criminelles --- Inventrices --- Jeunes femmes --- Joueuses d'échecs --- Lesbiennes --- Malades mentales --- Mères --- Métisses --- Oratrices --- Pionnières --- Pleureuses --- Dames d'honneur --- Prisonnières --- Prostituées --- Publics féminins --- Réfugiées --- Reines --- Reines d'Arles --- Reines de beauté --- Relations entre femmes --- Religieuses --- Soeurs --- Égéries --- Sorcières --- Sportives --- Tantes --- Voyageuses --- Espionnes --- Étrangères --- Femelles --- Fécondité humaine --- Stérilité --- Réserve ovarienne --- esthétique --- Loisirs --- philosophie --- théologie --- Fertilité --- Cameroons --- United Republic of Cameroon --- Republic of Cameron --- République Fédérale du Cameroun --- République du Cameroun --- Federal Republic of Cameroon --- Republic of Cameroon --- République Unie du Cameroun --- République fédérale du Cameroun --- République unie du Cameroun --- Vereinigte Republik Kamerun --- West Cameroon --- Kameruner --- Cameroun --- Southern Cameroons --- 1960 --- -Banganté --- Banganté --- -Social life and customs.

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