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Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Chapter I Introduction: Autochthony-the Flip Side of Globalization? I
A Primordial yet Global Form of Belonging? 2
Autochthony's Genealogy: Some Elements 6
Autochthony Now: Globalization and the Neoliberal Turn 16
Autochthony and the Tenacity of the Nation-State 21
Historical Construction, Political Manipulation and Emotional Power 26
Approach: From Identity to Subjectivation and Aesthetics 31
Chapter Overview 35
Chapter 2 Cameroon: Autochthony, Democratization, and New Struggles over Citizenship 39
Belonging to a Nonexistent Province 41
Elite Associations and Autochthony: Different Degrees of Citizenship? 43
The "Sea People" Protected by the New Constitution 49
Debates in the Cameroonian Press 53
Autochthony's "Naturalness": The Funeral as a Final Test for Belonging 55
A Tortuous History 57
An Empty Discourse with Segmentary Implications 63
Conclusion 64
Chapter 3 Cameroon: Decentralization and Belonging 66
The East and the New Importance of the Forest 69
The New Forest Law 72
Participation in Practice 74
The Elusive Community 76
The Community as Stakeholder: Belonging and Exclusion 81
Village or Grande Famille? 83
The Halfhearted Belonging of the External Elites 86
Discovering Allogenes at Ever Closer Range 89
Conclusion 94
Chapter 4 African Trajectories 97
Ivory Coast: Identification and Exclusion 98
Elsewhere in Africa 117
"Pygmy" Predicaments: Can Only Citizens Qualify as Autochthons? 124
Chapter 5 Autochthony in Europe: The Dutch Turn 130
The Dutch Switch: From Multiculturalism to Cultural Integration 134
Overview: How theNetherlands Became an "Immigration Country" 137
National Consensus and Its History-the Dutch Way 139
Alternative Solutions 142
A More Forceful Integration 144
Allochtonen: A New Term on the Dutch Scene 147
Elusive Autochthony 153
History and Culture 155
Comparisons 162
Chapter 6 Cameroon: Nation-Building and Autochthony as Processes of Subjectivation 169
Nation-Building as an Everyday Reality 172
Rituals of Belonging: The Funeral at Home as a Celebration of Autochthony 190
Chapter 7 Epilogue: Can the Land Lie? Autochthony's Uncertainties in Africa and Europe 212
Varying Patterns of Nation-Building in Africa and Their Implications 213
Autochthony and the Search for Ritual in Europe 218
Notes 225
Bibliography 263
Index 279
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