DOMINIQUE MALAQUAIS.

DOMINIQUE MALAQUAIS, Architecture, pouvoir et dissidence au Cameroun. Paris: Karthala (26 [euro] ISBN 2 84586 231 8) 2002 400pp

The starting point for this surpassingly accessible and lively study is the emphasis that architecture is a political phenomenon. Clearly, this idea exhibits also a very good starting point for a fertile linking of art history and anthropology. The work is centred on Bandjoun, the main chieftaincy among the Bamileke race in the highlands of West Cameroon. A apportionment has been written already about this assemblage and about Bandjoun in particular. This is hardly

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