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Title:Ethnogenesis and Fractal History of an African Frontier: Mambila-Njerep-Mandulu
Authors:Zeitlyn, DavidISNI
Connell, Bruce
Year:2003
Periodical:The Journal of African History
Volume:44
Issue:1
Pages:117-138
Language:English
Geographic terms:Nigeria
Cameroon
Subjects:Mambila
historiography
history
ethnic groups
History and Exploration
Ethnic and Race Relations
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4100385
Abstract:This paper explores the notion of fractals - structures that display a similar degree of complexity at whatever scale they may be viewed - in relation to investigating African history. A case study of developing ethnicities in the Mambila region of the Nigeria-Cameroon borderland is presented from a fractal perspective: five levels of the history of this region, covering different time, population and physical scales, as well as different objects of explanation for each, are explored. The authors' general conclusion is that the different scales, or levels, at which one may view history may contain features or imply generalizations that mask features found in, or generalizations implied by, other levels. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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