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The Buttocks of the House: Matrilineal Succession Among the Aghem of Wum, North West Cameroon – Ancestral Logic, Social Function, and the Challenge of Contemporary Reform
Aghem, Cameroon Grassfields, Customary law, inheritance, kinship, matrilineal succession, Menchum Division, Modernity, seeh’ndugu, Women, WumBy: CALISTUS ABANG – The Aghem of Wum in Menchum Division are among the most ethnographically distinct groups in the Cameroon Grassfields, due in part to their long history of matrilineal succession – a method of determining descent and transferring property and leadership through the female line. The Aghem term for the matrilineage, ‘seeh’ndugu’, means…