|
|
Lebialem.info |
|
 |
Resource
of writings and materials
concerning the
Bangwa, Mok and
Mundani Peoples
of Lebialem Division in
South West Cameroon |
| |
CONTRIBUTING MATERIAL TO
THIS WEBSITE OR COMMENT
To contribute material to this website or comment contact:
fuandem@lebialem.info
|
|
| |
HTML
and/or PDF
file formats are available.
For some of the longer files the HTML version is easier to read online as there is a content bar at
the side of the main document. |
|
|
| |
| BRITISH
COLONIAL RECORDS |
|
|
|
 |
1922 Bangwa Tribal Area Assessment
Report
HENRY CADMAN
This
was the first written account of Bangwa society following a three month
tour of the entire area by the British District Officer, Henry Cadman.
PDF version
1942 Bangwa Tribal Area Intelligence Report
H.C.A. BRYANT
This
short report was a 20 year follow up to the original Cadman report.
PDF version
|
|
|
GERMAN
OCCUPATION |
|
|
A
Bangwa account of early encounters with the German Colonial
Administration
Journal of the
Historical Society of Nigeria,
Vol. III, No. 2. 1965
ELIZABETH
DUNSTAN (1963)
This is
the text of an interview by the anthropologist, Elizabeth
Dunstan, with Fontem Defang, the Fon of Fontem, about the
experience of German occupation of the Bangwa area. The
interview also covers the period of resistance by Fon Fontem
Asonganyi
(photo
- right). |
 |
|
PDF version
HTML version |
|
|
|
ROBERT
BRAIN |
|
CONTEMPORARY STUDIES |
|
|
A Tasmanian, Brain
was the first anthropologist to undertake research among the Bangwa
people and has written extensively on Bangwa culture and art.
The
Bangwa of West Cameroon
ROBERT
BRAIN (1967)
University
College London, 1967.
A
short general overview of the Bangwa society and its culture.
HTML version
PDF version |
Friends and Twins in Bangwa
ROBERT
BRAIN (1970)
From:
'Man in Africa',
edited by Mary Douglas, London, Tavistock, 1970.
A
study of forms of relationships in Bangwa society with particular
reference to friendship groups and twins.
HTML version
PDF version |
Bangwa Funerary
Sculpture
ROBERT
BRAIN & ADAM POLLOCK (1971)
Gerald Duckworth
& Co. Ltd., London, 1971.
This is one of the best known works about Bangwa culture and deals
with the masks and figures owned by the secret societies which
perform at the elaborate funerary ceremonies.
The authors made two visits to the Bangwa area in 1965 and 1967 to
study the culture and collect ethnographic material.
PDF version (7.3Mb)
|
 |
|
A Social
Historical Study of Social Change among the Bangwa of Cameroon
VINCENT
LOCKHART
(1994)
Occasional
Paper No. 52, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1994.
The
author lived in Lebialem from 1982 until 1997
and recently spent another year there. This work looks at the
phenomenon of social change in the pre-colonial and
post-colonial/modern periods of Bangwa society.
HTML version
PDF version
|
Agro-ecological evidence of
climate change in the Lebialem Highlands of Cameroon
ALEXANDER
FOMIN LEGWEGOH
(2007)
Mountain Forum
Bulletin 'Melting Mountains' July 2007
A highly
topical and current look at the dramatic agricultural and
climatic changes affecting the Lebialem area.
Alexander Fomin Legwengoh was a
development and environmental consult for several NGOs working
in the Lebialem highlands. He later went on to carry out Ph.D.
studies.
HTML version
PDF version
|
|
|
|
RELIGIOUS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL |
|
|
|
Inculturation and Social Change among
the Savannah Societies of Western Cameroon
VINCENT LOCKHART
(1996)
University of
Edinburgh, 1996.
This
paper looks at the inculturation of the Christian faith in the context
of the externally induced social changes affecting the savannah
societies of western Cameroon from 1900 to the 1990's.
PDF version
|
The Decline of lefua in Nweh
FUANKEM ACHANKENG
(2001)
This
paper examines the declining loss of traditional authority.
HTML version
PDF version
|
Hunting and trapping in
Lebialem Division, Cameroon: bushmeat harvesting practices and
human reliance
J.H. WRIGHT &
N.E.C. PRISTON
(2010)
Endangered Species Research 11:1-12
(2010)
- doi:10.3354/esr00244
The
authors wrote these findings after conducting field studies in
the Lebialem area in 2007. Dr. Nancy Priston continues to study
primates and works for their protection and the conservation of
their environment throughout the world.
PDF version
|
|
|
|
|
|