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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 | |