An Interdisciplinary Path in the Grassfieds of Cameroon
Back in 1985, the author published a book entitled Échanges, développement et hiérarchies dans le Bamenda précolonial – Cameroun. Fifteen years later, it appeared that this book was walking on its head. To pastiche Marx, it had to be put back on its feet. The author proposes a narrative of this overturn. This article aims at analyzing a given African field research situation – that of the Cameroon Grassfields. It shows how it has yielded a series of successive discourses. Researches in many different academic disciplines over the last forty years have caused a number of shifts in anthropological paradigms, integrating more and more interdisciplinary intakes.