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Status and identity in West Africa : Nyamakalaw of Mande
- Title
- Status and identity in West Africa : Nyamakalaw of Mande / edited by David C. Conrad and Barbara E. Frank.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1995.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- x, 204 p. : maps; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- African systems of thought
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Etymologies of "nyamakala" / Charles S. Bird, Martha B. Kendall, and Kalilou Tera -- Power, structure, and Mande "jeliw" / Barbara G. Hoffman -- Semantics of "jugu" : blacksmiths, lore, and "who's bad" in Mande / Patrick R. McNaughton -- Linguistic evidence for the history of West African "castes" / Tal Tamari -- Blind man meets prophet : oral tradition, Islam, and "funé" identity / David C. Conrad -- Soninke "garankéw" and Bamana-Malinke "jeliw" : Mande leatherworkers, identity, and the diaspora / Barbara E. Frank -- Dieli of Korhogo : identity and identification / Robert Launay -- Women craft specialists in Jenne : the manipulation of Mande social categories / Adria La Violette -- "Jaliya" in the modern world : a tribute to Banzumana Sissoko and Massa Makan Diabaté / Cheick Makamadou Chérif Keita.
- Call Number
- Sc E 99-771
- ISBN
- 0253314097 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0253209293 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 94020215 //r96
- OCLC
- 30510790
- Title
- Status and identity in West Africa : Nyamakalaw of Mande / edited by David C. Conrad and Barbara E. Frank.
- Imprint
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1995.
- Series
- African systems of thought
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Conrad, David C.Frank, Barbara E.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 99-771