caa a22 4500 388036567 CHVBK 20180307125006.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199807 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1161255 doi S0001972000044107 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1161255 Power and the quest for recognition: neo-traditional titles among the new elite in Nso', Cameroon [Elektronische Daten] This article investigates the nature and structure of linkages between the urban elite and local institutions in their home villages in the Nso' area of north-west Cameroon. It argues that indigenous institutions provide a frame of reference for the negotiation of identity and the provision of security in a context where state institutions seem to have lost their raison d'être. The notion of a home village has become a defining factor in the urban-rural nexus which allows the elite to acquire resources from external sources which they in turn invest in the production of social and symbolic capital. The materialisation of this capital is manifested in the acquisition of neo-traditional titles. Under conditions of dire financial and material hardship some local traditional authorities have started to ‘commodity' what was previously earned through merit and service to the group. Copyright © International African Institute 1998 Fisiy Cyprian Goheen Mitzi Africa Cambridge University Press 68/3(1998-07), 383-402 0001-9720 68:3<383 1998 68 AFR https://doi.org/10.2307/1161255 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1161255 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fisiy Cyprian NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Goheen Mitzi NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Africa Cambridge University Press 68/3(1998-07), 383-402 0001-9720 68:3<383 1998 68 AFR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 077209389 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge