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Autore |
Hoffman Barbara G |
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Titolo |
Griots at war [[electronic resource] ] : conflict, conciliation, and caste in Mande / / Barbara G. Hoffman ; Mande transcriptions and translations prepared in collaboration with Kassim Koné |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2000 |
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1-282-06269-7 |
9786612062698 |
0-253-10893-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (318 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mandingo (African people) |
Mandingo (African people) - Social life and customs |
Griots - Mali - Kita |
Storytelling - Mali - Kita |
Oral tradition - Mali - Kita |
Oratory - Mali - Kita |
Electronic books. |
Kita (Mali) Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-291) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography; PROLOGUE: An Invitation to War; ONE: Power and Paradox, Griots and Mande Social Organization; TWO: In the Hands of Speech; THREE: A History of Fadenya, Interpretations of the Kita Griot War; FOUR: Making Boundaries, When Griots Speak Before Nobles; FIVE: Breaking Boundaries, When Nobles Speak Before Griots; SIX: The Healer Who Is Ill Must Swallow His Own Saliva, When Griots Speak to Griots; SEVEN: Caste, Mande-Style; EPILOGUE: A Wound Cannot Heal on PusŽ; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Griots at War Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande Barbara G. Hoffman An extraordinary account of conflict and peacemaking among griots.""... a compelling study of how social identities and relationships |
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are constructed and reconstructed through action, specifically through speech.... The book succeeds marvelously in conveying the voice of the people who are, in every sense of the word, its subject."" -- Robert LaunayIn 1985, while she was an apprentice griot or jelimuso |
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