| Description |
1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Families and Identities; Contextualizing the Story; Spatializing Identity Signs; About the Book; Theoretical Paradigm; A Word About Sources; How the Book Fits into the Literature; Conclusion; 1 How Identities Are Formed: The Manipulation of Myths and Cultural Signs; Nyakate Identities and Mande/Fulbe Articulations in the Jaman'a; Articulating Eastern Nvakate/Niare Identities; The Manipulated Wagadu Legend; Conclusions; Coda: Other Oral Accounts and Further Mythic Manipulations; 2 Material Elaborations of ""The Mande Style |
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The Bamako Kafu and Regional PerspectivesThe Paradigm Elaborated; Ethnic Identities Historically Contextualized; Conclusion; 3 ""The Family (Is) the Pivot of Sudanese Societies, the Center of All Organization"": The Bamako Kafu and Mande States; Introduction; More Cultural Manipulations: The Roman Paradigm; The Bamako Kafu: Contextualizing and Elaborating a Political Identity ""in the Mande Style, ; State Maintenance and Social Mobilization; Bamako's Relationship with the Segovian Metropole; Conclusion: Bamako a Minimalist and Semiautonomous State; 4 Commerce and Markets ""in the Mande Style |
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IntroductionPre-Kafu Regional Markets: The Samanyana Market Cluster and Bozo Camps; Bamako Kafu and the Long-Distance Trade Market Operations and Commercial Identities; The Gold Trade Revisited; War-Time Economies and the Post-war Economic Recovery: Kola Nuts, Grain, and Livestock; Conclusion; 5 Bamako Was Not as ... We Had Supposed -- Bamako Was Not a Nothing Country; Introduction; France in the Senegambia and the Advance to the Niger; The Undialogue; The Railway; Bamako's French Identity: Votre Jolie Ville de Bamako, Toute FranÃaise, |
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Conclusion: Bamako's ""French"" Identity or How Identities Are Formed RevisitedBamako's ""French"" Identity; The French ""Bambara"" Identity; The Re-Birth of the Wagadu Identity; Appendix: Maps of Western Africa; Bibliography; About the Book and Author; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bambara (African people) -- Kinship
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Bambara (African people) -- Kinship
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429980183 |
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0429980183 |
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