LEADER 03582nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910462176503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-73323-4 010 $a0-226-92511-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226925110 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276055 035 $a(OCoLC)819853955 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10616902 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000757212 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12318747 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757212 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10771356 035 $a(PQKB)11423137 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000099528 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1049987 035 $a(DE-B1597)524805 035 $a(OCoLC)945394000 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226925110 035 $a(PPN)167875787 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1049987 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10616902 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL404573 035 $a(OCoLC)819136589 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276055 100 $a20120510d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnmasking the state$b[electronic resource] $emaking Guinea modern /$fMike McGovern 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-226-92510-2 311 $a0-226-92509-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPart One. The Grammar and Rhetoric of Identity -- $tPart Two. Revealing and Reshaping the Body Politic -- $tAppendix 1 -- $tAppendix 2 -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aWhen the Republic of Guinea gained independence in 1958, one of the first policies of the new state was a village-to-village eradication of masks and other ritual objects it deemed "fetishes." The Demystification Program, as it was called, was so urgent it even preceded the building of a national road system. In Unmasking the State, Mike McGovern attempts to understand why this program was so important to the emerging state and examines the complex role it had in creating a unified national identity. In doing so, he tells a dramatic story of cat and mouse where minority groups cling desperately to their important- and outlawed-customs. Primarily focused on the communities in the country's southeastern rainforest region-people known as Forestiers-the Demystification Program operated via a paradox. At the same time it banned rituals from Forestiers' day-to-day lives, it appropriated them into a state-sponsored program of folklorization. McGovern points to an important purpose for this: by objectifying this polytheistic group's rituals, the state created a viable counterexample against which the Muslim majority could define proper modernity. Describing the intertwined relationship between national and local identity making, McGovern showcases the coercive power and the unintended consequences involved when states attempt to engineer culture. 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General$2bisacsh 607 $aGuinea$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aGuinea$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General. 676 $a966.52/03 686 $aLB 40690$2rvk 700 $aMcGovern$b Mike$0916918 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462176503321 996 $aUnmasking the state$92055570 997 $aUNINA