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Courses
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KA-110
Ethnography of non-western societies
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KA-102 Issues in African
Ethnography 1
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KA-103 Issues in African
Ethnography 2
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PA/S-001 Aspects of
Personhood in Africa and
Melanesia
Biography
Emilios Tsekenis
was born in Douala (Cameroon). He studied
Economics at the University of Montpellier I
(France) and Social Anthropology at the Ecole
des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
His publications concern the ethnography and the
precolonial history of the Cameroon Grassfields.
Topics include:
the production of locality, and the formation of
individual and collective identity(ies) in the
Cameroon Grassfieds during the pre-colonial era
as well as in contemporary Grassfields.
Selected Publications
- Exploring the production of knowledge on
Africa through the concept of
‘personhood’.
Electronic publication. Proceedings of the
4th
European Conference on African Studies:
African Engagements: On whose terms?,
University of Uppsala, Sweden,
15-18
June 2011.
http://www.nai.uu.se/ecas-4/panels/101-120/panel-111/
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From ‘Tribes’ to the ‘Production of locality’:
re-presentations of sub-Saharan Africa. Review
of Social Sciences, 132-133: 67-98, 2010 (in
Greek).
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''Sur quelques aspects de la
royaute mossi (Yatenga precolonial; Burkina
Faso).
Anthropos 106 (1) : 135-148, 2011.
- ''Kinship
values
and
the
production
of 'locality'
in
pre-colonial
Cameroon
Grassfields (West
Cameroon)''.
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society,
35 (3),
5-27, 2010c.
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'' 'Gens du pouvoir' / 'gens de la terre': un point
de vue
Batie (chefferie
Grassfields de l'ouest Cameroun).
Anthropos,
105 (2), 489-502, 2010b.
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''La 'frontiere africaine
revisitee:'ethnogenese'
dans les Grassfields de l'est (le cas de la
chefferie bamileke de Batie).
Canadian Journal of African Studies,
44 (1): 142-177, 2010a.
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''From pre-colonial fluidity to
post-colonial essentialism: the 'African
frontier' and the
changing concept of 'autochthony' (the case of
the eastern Grassfields - Cameroon).
Electronic publication. Proceedings of the 3rd
European Conference on African Studies:
Re-spacing Africa, University of Leipzig,
Germany, 4-7
June 2009.
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~ecas2009.
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''Frogs, Chameleons and Human...: 'nature', 'society' and the 'person' among the
Bamileke of West Cameroon). In Zoras, Kostas &
F. Badimaroudis (eds.)
Social Sciences Today. 1st Conference of the
School
of Social Sciences
of the University of the
Aegean, Mitilini 2006. Sakkoula:
Athens
- Kommotini: 387-405, 2007 (in Greek).
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