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Mande Mansa : essays in honor of David C. Conrad / edited by Stephen Belcher, Jan Jansen, and Mohamed N'Daou.
LIBRA DT551.45.M36 M36 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mande worlds ; v. 2.
- Mande worlds ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mandingo (African people)--History.
- Mandingo (African people).
- Mandingo (African people)--Folklore.
- Mandingo (African people)--Social life and customs.
- Conrad, David C.
- Legends--Mali.
- Legends.
- History.
- Mali.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Essays in honor of David C. Conrad
- Place of Publication:
- Zürich : Lit, 2008.
- Contents:
- Preface / Stephen Belcher, Jan Jansen and Mohamed N'Daou
- Puppet masquerades in Kirango, Mali: continuity, innovation, and changing contexts / Mary Jo Arnoldi and Elisabeth den Otter
- Locating Sankaran, locating the Conde / Laura Arntson
- The problem of the Mande creation myth / Ralph A. Austen
- Beyond excavation
- the Dia archaeological project / Rogier M.A. Bedaux and Annette M. Schmidt
- Deconstructing the Conradian moduc operandi / Louise Bedichek
- Some observations on the textualization of the 'Charte de Kouroukan Fougan' / Stephen Belcher
- 'Si Allah le veut'
- a tribute to David Conrad / Louise M. Bourgault
- Homage to Daouda Conde / Brahima Camara
- The African intellectual in the court of public opinion: a critical reflection / Mamadou Diawara
- Nansa Doumbia: matriarch, artist, and guardian of tradition / Barbara E. Frank
- The struggle for leadership in Mande / Nicholas S. Hopkins
- Trade, identity and the linkages between Freetown and the Mande heartland / Allen M. Howard and David E. Skinner
- Mali by stamps
- an inquiry into a country's image / Jan Jansen
- Words of power: magical spells of the Mande hunters / Agnes Kedzierska-Manzon
- Deep discourses
- a tour of the Mande power landscape / Roderick J. McIntosh
- Mediations: Tayiru Banbera and David Conrad / Paulo F. de Moraes Farias
- Djibril Tamsir Niane and David Conrad: collaborative re-imagining of the Mande past across the Atlantic / Mohamed Saidou N'Daou
- On the terminology of the Mande world / Mamadou Lamine Sanogo
- Faso and jamana: provisional notes on Mande social thought in Malian political discourse, 1946-1979 / Brandon County and Ryan Skinner
- In memory of a great singer: the Dogon Baja Ni as a cultural-historical performance / Walter E.A. van Beek
- To be respectful in Mande
- where does Maninka honorific vocabulary come from? / Valentin Vydrine
- Publications by David C. Conrad.
- Notes:
- Festschrift.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783037359044
- 3037359048
- 9783825813185
- 3825813185
- OCLC:
- 268784159
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