Bali Nyonga of Western Cameroon from lela main lela Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 4 min 15 sec
✓ Published: 16-Jul-2014

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This film was given to the Pitt Rivers Museum by E.M. Chilver, but it was made by Edwin Ardener.nEdwin William Ardener (1927-1987) studied anthropology at the London School of Economics. After graduating in 1948 he went to Nigeria, where he spent two years doing fieldwork among the Igbo. In 1952 he became a research fellow at the West African (later Nigerian) Institute of Social and Economic Research. He shifted his focus to Cameroon, where he did fieldwork for a decade. It is most likely that t