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Ritual, fusion, and conflict: The roots of agro-pastoral violence in rural Cameroon
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Herder-farmer conflicts in West Africa have caused thousands of deaths in recent years. Many conflicts are triggered by localized events that rapidly spiral out of control. What leads specific interpersonal conflicts to scale up into intergroup violence? We propose that such conflicts are rooted in identity and ritual dynamics. We present evidence that participants in Mambila traditions of masquerade initiation in Cameroon report especially strong identity fusion, a visceral sense of oneness ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1177/1368430220959705
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Group Processes & Intergroup Relations Journal website
- Volume:
- 25
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 298-311
- Publication date:
- 2020-10-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-08-21
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1461-7188
- ISSN:
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1368-4302
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1127761
- Local pid:
- pubs:1127761
- Deposit date:
- 2020-08-22
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- Buhrmester et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © The Author(s) 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version will be available online from SAGE Publications.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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