Biographies Between Spheres of Empire 2018
DOI: 10.4324/9780203701201-3
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David Meetom: Interpreting, Power and the Risks of Intermediation in the Initial Phase of German Colonial Rule in Cameroon

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“…Social interaction in colonial contexts has been the subject of study for many researchers, primarily anthropologists and historians, since the 1950s (Bührer et al, 2017: 3). This field of research has helped to blur the boundaries of the rigid dichotomous notion of colonisers versus colonised (Memmi, 1957), adding more differentiated categories for the manifold actors of colonial projects such as ʻmiddlemen ʼ (Austen and Derrick, 1999), ʻpatrons ʼ, ʻclients ʼ (Newbury, 2000), ʻcolonial employees ʼ (Osborn, 2003) and ʻinterpreters ʼ (Schaper, 2016). These studies try to illuminate the complexity and variety of social interaction and the agency of local people in colonial contexts.…”
Section: Local African Brokers Between Personal Interests and Colonial Politicsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Social interaction in colonial contexts has been the subject of study for many researchers, primarily anthropologists and historians, since the 1950s (Bührer et al, 2017: 3). This field of research has helped to blur the boundaries of the rigid dichotomous notion of colonisers versus colonised (Memmi, 1957), adding more differentiated categories for the manifold actors of colonial projects such as ʻmiddlemen ʼ (Austen and Derrick, 1999), ʻpatrons ʼ, ʻclients ʼ (Newbury, 2000), ʻcolonial employees ʼ (Osborn, 2003) and ʻinterpreters ʼ (Schaper, 2016). These studies try to illuminate the complexity and variety of social interaction and the agency of local people in colonial contexts.…”
Section: Local African Brokers Between Personal Interests and Colonial Politicsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The diversity of this material (written memories of descendants, interviews with family members and other village inhabitants, and archival records) allows a differentiated account of his life that defies easy categorisation. Johny Baleng can be classified neither with the nowadays out-ofdate term of colonial ʻcollaborator ʼ (Robinson, 1972) nor only with the currently used professional designation ʻinterpreter ʼ (Osborn, 2003;Schaper, 2016) for the colonial administration. Instead, the term ʻcolonial broker ʼ describes the complexity of his activities much better.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Erwähnt werden die Verträge »mit den Herrschern von Usagara, Nguru, Useguha und Ukami.« Dabei erhielt die Gesellschaft unter der Bedingung, dass sie deutsch blieb, die Befugnis zur Ausübung aller aus den Uns vorgelegten Verträgen fliessenden Rechte, einschließlich der Gerichtsbarkeit, gegenüber den Eingeborenen und den in diesen Gebieten sich niederlassenden oder zu Handels-und anderen Zwecken Bartmuss (2014); Ritter (1957). Schaper (2012) 242-243. Peters (1912 Ob aus der Gesellschaft später eine Aktiengesellschaft wurde, ist in der Literatur umstritten.…”
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