Bibliographies in Sources

Real Property

Difficult and Unusual Births

Ornament

Body Alterations

Music

Dance

Kinship Terminology

Life and Death

Spirits and Gods

Sacred Objects and Places

Magic

Dwellings

Settlement Patterns

Household

Status, Role, and Prestige

Classes

Slavery

Aftermath of Combat

Traditional History

History

Arboriculture

Internal Trade

Location

Climate

Topography and Geology

Flora

Medical Therapy

Family Relationships

Polygamy

Extended Families

Lineages

Clans

Domesticated Animals

Poultry Raising

Tillage

General Tools

Speech

Vocabulary

Linguistic Identification

Mode of Marriage

Nuptials

Termination of Marriage

Secondary Marriages

Inheritance

Social Readjustments to Death

Division of Labor by Gender

Community Heads

Informal in-Group Justice

Ceramic Technology

Smiths and Their Crafts

Furniture

Utensils

Ingroup Antagonisms

Reviews and Critiques

Population

Special Crops

Burial Practices and Funerals

Mourning

Identification

Social Control

Wrongs

Judicial Authority

Material Not Relevant

Naming

Techniques of Socialization

Transmission of Skills

Sorcery

Revelation and Divination

Magicians and Diviners

CULTURE SUMMARY: BANEN

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

CREDITS

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

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The Bantu-speaking Banen are agriculturalists who live in mountains of southwest Cameroon. They are a patrilineal society living in dispersed, clan-based settlements, under the largely judicial authority of local tribal chiefs. Exchange of brides between clans, once common, has changed to the payment of bridewealth. The Banen believe in a high god and nature spirits, but also in a vital force found throughout nature, the strength of which in humans, along with wealth, forms the basis for leadership.

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