Marriage and Memories of the Slave Trade Among the Ejaghams of Cameroon's Cross River Region
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00020397241236493" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00020397241236493</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00020397241236493" target="_blank" >10.1177/00020397241236493</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Marriage and Memories of the Slave Trade Among the Ejaghams of Cameroon's Cross River Region
Original language description
Using interview data collected from communities in Cameroon's Cross River region, this study examines the experiences of “slave descendants” in their marriages/attempted marriages with “freemen.” Using theories from Mary Douglas and Erving Goffman to analyse their stories, I demonstrate that while “slave descendants” are legally permitted to marry members of “freeman” origin, in practice, some cultural privileges are stripped from those who choose to intermarry, especially impacting those of “freeman” origins. Among “freeman” individuals, beliefs exist that marrying a “slave descendant” can limit their social and cultural potential. For example, they believe such marriages will contaminate the purity of their bloodline. Correspondingly, I discovered that many “slave descendants” aspire to unions with “freemen,” despite discrimination and rejection, to give their children a “half-pure” blood identity. They believe that giving their children this “half-pure” blood identity helps improve their future prospects.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50400 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Africa Spectrum
ISSN
0002-0397
e-ISSN
1868-6869
Volume of the periodical
59
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
119-140
UT code for WoS article
001202163800006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85187889194