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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Autochthony-the Flip Side of Globalization? | |
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| A Primordial yet Global Form of Belonging? | |
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| Autochthony's Genealogy: Some Elements | |
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| Autochthony Now: Globalization and the Neoliberal Turn | |
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| Autochthony and the Tenacity of the Nation-State | |
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| Historical Construction, Political Manipulation and Emotional Power | |
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| Approach: From Identity to Subjectivation and Aesthetics | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Cameroon: Autochthony, Democratization, and New Struggles over Citizenship | |
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| Belonging to a Nonexistent Province | |
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| Elite Associations and Autochthony: Different Degrees of Citizenship? | |
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| The "Sea People" Protected by the New Constitution | |
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| Debates in the Cameroonian Press | |
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| Autochthony's "Naturalness": The Funeral as a Final Test for Belonging | |
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| A Tortuous History | |
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| An Empty Discourse with Segmentary Implications | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Cameroon: Decentralization and Belonging | |
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| The East and the New Importance of the Forest | |
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| The New Forest Law | |
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| Participation in Practice | |
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| The Elusive Community | |
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| The Community as Stakeholder: Belonging and Exclusion | |
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| Village or Grande Famille? | |
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| The Halfhearted Belonging of the External Elites | |
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| Discovering Allogenes at Ever Closer Range | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| African Trajectories | |
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| Ivory Coast: Identification and Exclusion | |
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| Elsewhere in Africa | |
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| "Pygmy" Predicaments: Can Only Citizens Qualify as Autochthons? | |
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| Autochthony in Europe: The Dutch Turn | |
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| The Dutch Switch: From Multiculturalism to Cultural Integration | |
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| Overview: How the Netherlands Became an "Immigration Country" | |
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| National Consensus and Its History-the Dutch Way | |
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| Alternative Solutions | |
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| A More Forceful Integration | |
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| Allochtonen: A New Term on the Dutch Scene | |
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| Elusive Autochthony | |
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| History and Culture | |
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| Comparisons | |
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| Cameroon: Nation-Building and Autochthony as Processes of Subjectivation | |
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| Nation-Building as an Everyday Reality | |
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| Rituals of Belonging: The Funeral at Home as a Celebration of Autochthony | |
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| Epilogue: Can the Land Lie? Autochthony's Uncertainties in Africa and Europe | |
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| Varying Patterns of Nation-Building in Africa and Their Implications | |
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| Autochthony and the Search for Ritual in Europe | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |