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Article: Dominique Malaquais, Architecture, pouvoir et dissidence au Cameroun.(Book Review)
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DOMINIQUE MALAQUAIS, Architecture, pouvoir et dissidence au Cameroun. Paris: Karthala (26 [euro], ISBN 2 84586 231 8). 2002, 400pp.
The starting point for this very accessible and lively study is the emphasis that architecture is a political phenomenon. Clearly, this idea offers also a very good starting point for a fertile linking of art history and anthropology. The book is centred on Bandjoun, the main chieftaincy among the Bamileke people in the highlands of West Cameroon. A lot has been written already about this group, and about Bandjoun in particular. This is hardly surprising in view of the prominent but contested role of Bamileke migrants throughout the ...