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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "SOEM" Among The Tikar presents a groundbreaking ethnographic and philosophical investigation into the institution of Soem within Tikar society of the Adamawa Plateau and the Mbam plain region of Cameroon. The book moves beyond simplistic translations of Soem as "witchcraft" and reframes it as a total social, spiritual, ontological, and jurisprudential system that structures Tikar reality.Tatah Mbuy's central argument is that Soem cannot be understood through imported moral binaries of good versus evil. Instead, it is a morally ambivalent, highly potent vital force - a form of esoteric knowledge and spiritual capital - whose meaning is entirely dependent on its holder's social intention and its communal deployment. The book demonstrates how Soem serves simultaneously as a theory of power, an explanation for misfortune, a system of social control, a healing art, and a language for negotiating inequality.The study is built on over 36 months of immersive fieldwork in Bankim, Ngambe-Tikar, Magba and surrounding chiefdoms, using oral histories, participation in palace societies, divination sessions, healing rituals, and life histories of recognized Soem-holders.CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER SYNTHESIS1. The Tikar Cosmos: Personhood, Power, and the InvisibleMbuy establishes the ontological foundation. For the Tikar, the world is divided into _nkwen_ (the visible world of everyday life) and _nsoem_ (the invisible, potentiated world that doubles and animates the visible). A complete human being is composed of _nyi_ (body), _shi_ (shadow/double), and _mgbati_ (breath-life force). Personhood is not achieved at birth but is progressively constructed through initiation, moral conduct, and the accumulation of _ndue_ (social weight).Power, in Tikar thought, is never merely physical or economic. Legitimate authority must have a spiritual undergirding. The Fon (King), the _Nji_ (regulatory societies), and the elders do not simply rule; they _see_. The capacity to see beyond the ordinary is the ultimate form of authority. This introduces Soem as the epistemological key: Soem is the capacity to operate effectively in _nsoem_ to affect _nkwen_. Without understanding this, the outsider misreads everything.2. Defining Soem: Beyond the Lexicon of WitchcraftThis chapter deconstructs the translation problem. Early external observers, operating with limited cosmological literacy and theological anxieties, collapsed the complex lexicon of Tikar esotericism into the single English term "witchcraft." Mbuy recovers the indigenous taxonomy: - Soem ye Dwen (Soem of the Stomach/Womb): Considered the most potent and dangerous. Believed to reside as a living entity in the abdomen. It is often described as having eyes, teeth, and a will of its own. It can be inherited, bought, or inadvertently acquired. It grants powers of metamorphosis, night travel, and spiritual ingestion.- Soem ye Mis (Soem of the Eyes): The power of the seers, diviners, and healers. It allows one to perceive hidden forces, diagnose the true cause of illness, and locate lost objects. It is generally viewed as socially positive, though its holders are feared for their penetrating gaze.- Soem ye Nji (Soem of the Societies): The collective, institutionalized Soem held by regulatory societies like the _Nji Mgbang_ and _Nji Soem_. This is Soem tamed by tradition, used for community protection, oath-taking, and enforcement of communal law.Mbuy argues that to call all three "witchcraft" is akin to calling a surgeon, a soldier, and a murderer all "knife-users" - technically true but analytically useless. The Tikar themselves make sharp moral distinctions not by the power itself, but by its _directionality_: Is it used to _build_ (Soem ye Nkun - constructive Soem) or to _devour_ (Soem ye Gba - devouring Soem)? This i Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "SOEM" Among The Tikar presents a groundbreaking ethnographic and philosophical investigation into the institution of Soem within Tikar society of the Adamawa Plateau and the Mbam plain region of Cameroon. The book moves beyond simplistic translations of Soem as "witchcraft" and reframes it as a total social, spiritual, ontological, and jurisprudential system that structures Tikar reality.Tatah Mbuy's central argument is that Soem cannot be understood through imported moral binaries of good versus evil. Instead, it is a morally ambivalent, highly potent vital force - a form of esoteric knowledge and spiritual capital - whose meaning is entirely dependent on its holder's social intention and its communal deployment. The book demonstrates how Soem serves simultaneously as a theory of power, an explanation for misfortune, a system of social control, a healing art, and a language for negotiating inequality.The study is built on over 36 months of immersive fieldwork in Bankim, Ngambe-Tikar, Magba and surrounding chiefdoms, using oral histories, participation in palace societies, divination sessions, healing rituals, and life histories of recognized Soem-holders.CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER SYNTHESIS1. The Tikar Cosmos: Personhood, Power, and the InvisibleMbuy establishes the ontological foundation. For the Tikar, the world is divided into _nkwen_ (the visible world of everyday life) and _nsoem_ (the invisible, potentiated world that doubles and animates the visible). A complete human being is composed of _nyi_ (body), _shi_ (shadow/double), and _mgbati_ (breath-life force). Personhood is not achieved at birth but is progressively constructed through initiation, moral conduct, and the accumulation of _ndue_ (social weight).Power, in Tikar thought, is never merely physical or economic. Legitimate authority must have a spiritual undergirding. The Fon (King), the _Nji_ (regulatory societies), and the elders do not simply rule; they _see_. The capacity to see beyond the ordinary is the ultimate form of authority. This introduces Soem as the epistemological key: Soem is the capacity to operate effectively in _nsoem_ to affect _nkwen_. Without understanding this, the outsider misreads everything.2. Defining Soem: Beyond the Lexicon of WitchcraftThis chapter deconstructs the translation problem. Early external observers, operating with limited cosmological literacy and theological anxieties, collapsed the complex lexicon of Tikar esotericism into the single English term "witchcraft." Mbuy recovers the indigenous taxonomy: - Soem ye Dwen (Soem of the Stomach/Womb): Considered the most potent and dangerous. Believed to reside as a living entity in the abdomen. It is often described as having eyes, teeth, and a will of its own. It can be inherited, bought, or inadvertently acquired. It grants powers of metamorphosis, night travel, and spiritual ingestion.- Soem ye Mis (Soem of the Eyes): The power of the seers, diviners, and healers. It allows one to perceive hidden forces, diagnose the true cause of illness, and locate lost objects. It is generally viewed as socially positive, though its holders are feared for their penetrating gaze.- Soem ye Nji (Soem of the Societies): The collective, institutionalized Soem held by regulatory societies like the _Nji Mgbang_ and _Nji Soem_. This is Soem tamed by tradition, used for community protection, oath-taking, and enforcement of communal law.Mbuy argues that to call all three "witchcraft" is akin to calling a surgeon, a soldier, and a murderer all "knife-users" - technically true but analytically useless. The Tikar themselves make sharp moral distinctions not by the power itself, but by its _directionality_: Is it used to _build_ (Soem ye Nkun - constructive Soem) or to _devour_ (Soem ye Gba - devouring Soem Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "SOEM" Among The Tikar presents a groundbreaking ethnographic and philosophical investigation into the institution of Soem within Tikar society of the Adamawa Plateau and the Mbam plain region of Cameroon. The book moves beyond simplistic translations of Soem as "witchcraft" and reframes it as a total social, spiritual, ontological, and jurisprudential system that structures Tikar reality.Tatah Mbuy's central argument is that Soem cannot be understood through imported moral binaries of good versus evil. Instead, it is a morally ambivalent, highly potent vital force - a form of esoteric knowledge and spiritual capital - whose meaning is entirely dependent on its holder's social intention and its communal deployment. The book demonstrates how Soem serves simultaneously as a theory of power, an explanation for misfortune, a system of social control, a healing art, and a language for negotiating inequality.The study is built on over 36 months of immersive fieldwork in Bankim, Ngambe-Tikar, Magba and surrounding chiefdoms, using oral histories, participation in palace societies, divination sessions, healing rituals, and life histories of recognized Soem-holders.CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER SYNTHESIS1. The Tikar Cosmos: Personhood, Power, and the InvisibleMbuy establishes the ontological foundation. For the Tikar, the world is divided into _nkwen_ (the visible world of everyday life) and _nsoem_ (the invisible, potentiated world that doubles and animates the visible). A complete human being is composed of _nyi_ (body), _shi_ (shadow/double), and _mgbati_ (breath-life force). Personhood is not achieved at birth but is progressively constructed through initiation, moral conduct, and the accumulation of _ndue_ (social weight).Power, in Tikar thought, is never merely physical or economic. Legitimate authority must have a spiritual undergirding. The Fon (King), the _Nji_ (regulatory societies), and the elders do not simply rule; they _see_. The capacity to see beyond the ordinary is the ultimate form of authority. This introduces Soem as the epistemological key: Soem is the capacity to operate effectively in _nsoem_ to affect _nkwen_. Without understanding this, the outsider misreads everything.2. Defining Soem: Beyond the Lexicon of WitchcraftThis chapter deconstructs the translation problem. Early external observers, operating with limited cosmological literacy and theological anxieties, collapsed the complex lexicon of Tikar esotericism into the single English term "witchcraft." Mbuy recovers the indigenous taxonomy: - Soem ye Dwen (Soem of the Stomach/Womb): Considered the most potent and dangerous. Believed to reside as a living entity in the abdomen. It is often described as having eyes, teeth, and a will of its own. It can be inherited, bought, or inadvertently acquired. It grants powers of metamorphosis, night travel, and spiritual ingestion.- Soem ye Mis (Soem of the Eyes): The power of the seers, diviners, and healers. It allows one to perceive hidden forces, diagnose the true cause of illness, and locate lost objects. It is generally viewed as socially positive, though its holders are feared for their penetrating gaze.- Soem ye Nji (Soem of the Societies): The collective, institutionalized Soem held by regulatory societies like the _Nji Mgbang_ and _Nji Soem_. This is Soem tamed by tradition, used for community protection, oath-taking, and enforcement of communal law.Mbuy argues that to call all three "witchcraft" is akin to calling a surgeon, a soldier, and a murderer all "knife-users" - technically true but analytically useless. The Tikar themselves make sharp moral distinctions not by the power itself, but by its _directionality_: Is it used to _build_ (Soem ye Nkun - constructive Soem) or to _devour_ (Soem ye Gba - devouring Soem Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 49 pp. "First prize winner 1980 national grand literary competition." The Defeat of the Sons of Baal is a play set in Cameroon that depicts the historical circumstances in which Christianity was born and nursed in most of Africa.

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Bamenda: African Research Studies, Unique Printers, 1994 Wrpps, 4to. 41pp. Copied onto A4 sheets and enclosed in clear plastic with a black plastic clamp on the spine. Containing two copied letters, on 4 pages from Mrs. E. M. Chilver to Nicolas Argenti, and another on 4 pages from Hermann of the Catholic Mission Elak-Oku to Mrs Chilver. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[O].…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In Fons of Traditional Bamenda, Tatah Mbuy critically examines the predicament of traditional leaders in the Cameroon Grasslands in the wake of the civil unrest that has regrettably evolved into armed conflict in the territories that constituted the former Southern Cameroons. Drawing on his ethnographic knowledge of this region, Mbuy argues that chieftaincy in the Grasslands was historically perceived as a sacred institution, the locus of neutrality and justice and the custodian of its people's cultural legacy. However, multiparty politics and bureaucratic elites have coopted traditional leaders to serve party interests to the detriment of their people, thus attracting widespread condemnation and violence towards their persons. Mbuy convincingly argues that the Fon should not be an active element in partisan or competitive politics. All civil administrators in any Fondom in 'traditional Bamenda' would gain more if they are conscious of the cultural structure and adherence of the people. As a source of neutrality, Fons stand to serve their people and society should they steer clear of partisan politics. This text is highly recommended to all concerned citizens, students of history, anthropology, political science and civil administrators in Cameroon and beyond.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. "Soem" among the Tikar | A Multidimensional Analysis of Witchcraft in an African Society | Tatah Humphrey Mbuy | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Smartworld Publishers | EAN 9798237825367 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Fons of "Traditional Bamenda" and Partisan Politics in Contemporary Cameroon | Reconstructing Identity and Cultural Meaning | Tatah Mbuy | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023 | Spears Media Press | EAN 9781957296128 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…