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200 10$aGriots at war$b[electronic resource] $econflict, conciliation, and caste in Mande /$fBarbara G. Hoffman ; Mande transcriptions and translations prepared in collaboration with Kassim Kone?
210   $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2000
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300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [282]-291) and index.
327   $aContents; 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 PusZ?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
330   $aGriots 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 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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