Masquerades of modernity : power and secrecy in Casamance, Senegal /

Masquerades of modernity : power and secrecy in Casamance, Senegal /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	De Jong, Ferdinand.
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2007]
Description:	x, 228 p. [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnology -- Senegal -- Casamance. Secrecy -- Senegal -- Casamance. Rites and ceremonies -- Senegal -- Casamance. Group identity -- Senegal -- Casamance. Culture and globalization -- Senegal -- Casamance. Culture and globalization. Ethnology. Group identity. Manners and customs. Rites and ceremonies. Secrecy. Casamance (Senegal) -- Social life and customs. Casamance (Senegal) -- Religious life and customs. Senegal -- Casamance.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6816409

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ISBN:	9780253351722 0253351723
Notes:	Originally published by Edinburgh University Press as part of the International African Library Series"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-216) and index.
Other form:	Online version: De Jong, Ferdinand. Masquerades of modernity. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2007]

Table of Contents:

List of maps, figures, plates and tables
Acknowledgements
About the author
Part I. Introduction
1. Power of Secrecy
Part II. Transitions
2. Jola Initiations, Gendered Localities
3. Out of Diaspora into the Forest
4. Politics of the Sacred Forest
Part III. Trajectories
5. Mandinko Initiation: The Making of an Urban Locality
6. Secrecy, Sacrilege and the State
Part IV. Traces
7. Masquerade of Migration
8. The Art of Tradition
9. Writing Secrecy
Notes
Bibliography
Index