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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Women and change in the Cameroon grassfields: A social and economic history of Moghamoland, c. 1889--1960 Abstract: This dissertation focuses on the centrality of women for the survival of lineages and analyzes how women in Moghamoland in the North West Province of Cameroon reacted to and coped with changes that they and their community underwent from 1889 to 1960. This period was characterized by significant changes in the local economy and social life due to colonization by Germans and the British. I argue that these changes affected women's lives not only at the individual level but, more importantly, have shifted the traditional balance of power between genders and the complementarity between sexes on which Moghamo political, economic and social life rested. This resulted in the deterioration of women's ikah (power and clout) in society. Using marriage and motherhood as entry points to my dissertation, I identify then examine traditional structures that allowed women to achieve ikah , before looking at how they reacted to alien rule. I introduce the female principle of life and I argue that rituals are not just tools of empowerment of women, but constitute a form of resistance. By examining rituals continuities and changes over time become evident. |
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