Lela in Bali: History Through Ceremony in Cameroon

by Richard Fardon

Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845452151
• ISBN13: 9781845452155
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"