Author: Dillon, Richard G.
Title: Ranking and Resistance: A Precolonial Cameroonian Polity in Regional Perspective
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1990). orig.cloth. 23x14cm, xiii,310 pp. 8pp photo illus.textual map. A large ink mark to side-page-edge, minor rubbing, VG. dustwrap ¶ Contents: Introduction; Fieldwork Setting & Research Methodology; The Bamenda Plateau as a Regional System; Precolonial Meta'; Patrilineal Descent; Village-Level Leadership: The Ideal Model; Village-Level Rituals &Activities; Ideal & Real in Village-Level Conflict Management; Process & Variation in Village Organization; Political Organization in the Intervillage Sphere; Conflict & Competition in the Intervillage Arena; Conclusion; Appendix.

Keywords: Political Anthropology, Cameroon, West Africa, Precolonial History, Customary Law, Meta' Ethnography, Ethnology Colonial, Ethnohistory Polity, Rural Sociology