Mande Mansa
Subtitle: essays in Honor of David C. Conrad
By: edited by Stephen Belcher, Jan Jansen, and Mohamed N'Daou
Series: Mande worlds -- v. 2; Mande worlds -- v. 2.
Publisher: Lit; Lit Verlag
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9783037359044; 9783825813185
Subjects: Mandingo (African people); History; Folklore; Social life and customs; Legends
Other titles: Essays in Honor of David C. Conrad
Notes: Festschrift.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Stephen Belcher, Jan Jansen and Mohamed N'Daou; title: Puppet masquerades in Kirango, Mali: continuity, innovation, and changing contexts  -- Mary Jo Arnoldi and Elisabeth den Otter; title: Locating Sankaran, locating the Conde  -- Laura Arntson; title: The problem of the Mande creation myth  -- Ralph A. Austen; title: Beyond excavation--the Dia archaeological project  -- Rogier M.A. Bedaux and Annette M. Schmidt; title: Deconstructing the Conradian moduc operandi  -- Louise Bedichek; title: Some observations on the textualization of the 'Charte de Kouroukan Fougan'  -- Stephen Belcher; title: 'Si Allah le veut'--a tribute to David Conrad  -- Louise M. Bourgault; title: Homage to Daouda Conde  -- Brahima Camara; title: The African intellectual in the court of public opinion: a critical reflection  -- Mamadou Diawara; title: Nansa Doumbia: matriarch, artist, and guardian of tradition  -- Barbara E. Frank; title: The struggle for leadership in Mande -- Nicholas S. Hopkins; title: Trade, identity and the linkages between Freetown and the Mande heartland  -- Allen M. Howard and David E. Skinner; title: Mali by stamps--an inquiry into a country's image  -- Jan Jansen; title: Words of power: magical spells of the Mande hunters  -- Agnes Kedzierska-Manzon; title: Deep discourses--a tour of the Mande power landscape  -- Roderick J. McIntosh; title: Mediations: Tayiru Banbera and David Conrad  -- Paulo F. de Moraes Farias; title: Djibril Tamsir Niane and David Conrad: collaborative re-imagining of the Mande past across the Atlantic  -- Mohamed Saidou N'Daou; title: On the terminology of the Mande world  -- Mamadou Lamine Sanogo; title: Faso and jamana: provisional notes on Mande social thought in Malian political discourse, 1946-1979  -- Brandon County and Ryan Skinner; title: In memory of a great singer: the Dogon Baja Ni as a cultural-historical performance  -- Walter E.A. van Beek; title: To be respectful in Mande--where does Maninka honorific vocabulary come from? -- Valentin Vydrine; title: Publications by David C. Conrad.