Masyarakat Sande

**Sande**, juga dikenal sebagai **zadεgi**, **bundu**, **bundo** dan **bondo**, adalah sebuah perhimpunan rahasia wanita di Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea dan Pantai Gading. Masyarakat Sande mengikrarkan para gadis yang memasuki masa dewasa dengan ritual-ritual yang meliputi sunat perempuan.

## Referensi

## Sumber lain dan bacaan tambahan
*Abraham, Arthur. *Mende Government and Politics under Colonial Rule*, Sierra Leone Univ. Press (dist.by Oxford), 1978. 
*Bledsoe, Caroline. *Women and Marriage in Kpelle Society*.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 1980. 
*Boone, Sylvia A. *Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art*.  (Yale Publications in the History of Art 34).  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1986. 
*Dapper, O. *Naukeurige Beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Gewesten van Egypten, Barbaryen, Libyen, [[Biledulgerid]], Guinea, Ethiopiën, Abyssine ...*, Amsterdam:  J. van Meurs, 1668.
*Day, Lynda Rose. *The Female Chiefs of the Mende, 1885-1977: Tracing the Evolution of an Indigenous Political Institution.*  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988.
*d'Azevedo, Warren L. (1962) *Some Historical Problems in the Delineation of A Central West Atlantic Region*.  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 96: 512-538.
*d'Azevedo, Warren L. (1980) *African Art of the West Atlantic Coast:  Transition in Form and Content*, by Frederick Lamp.  L. Kahan Gallery, New York, 1979.  African Arts 14(1): 81-88.
*Dubinskas, Frank A. *"Everywoman" and the "Super"-Woman: An Investigation of the Sowo, Spirit of the Mende Women's Secret Society, Sande: The Relation of Her Form as an Ideological Construction to its Bases in the Social and Economic Position of Women.*  Unpublished manuscript, 1976.
*Easmon, M. C. F. (1958) *Madam Yoko: Ruler of the Mendi Confederacy.* Sierra Leone Studies (n.s.) 11: 165-168. https://web.archive.org/web/20070701223936/http://www.sierra-leone.org/heroes10.html
*Holsoe, Svend E.  (1980) *Notes on the Vai Sande Society in Liberia*. Ethnologische Zeitschrift 1: 97-109.
*Jedrej, M. C. (1990) *Structural Aspects of a West African Secret Society*. Ethnologische Zeitschrift 1: 133-142.
*Jedrej, M. C. (1986) *Cosmology and Symbolism on the Central Guinea Coast*. Anthropos 81: 497-515.
*Lamp, Frederick (1985) *Cosmos, Cosmetics, and the Spirit of Bondo*, African Arts, 18:3, 28-43+98-99.
*Leopold, Robert S. (1983) *The Shaping of Men and the Making of Metaphors: The Meaning of White Clay in Poro and Sande Initiation Society Rituals*. Anthropology 7(2): 21-42.
*MacCormack, Carol P. [Hoffer] *Madam Yoko: Ruler of the Kpa Mende Confederacy*. In *Woman, Culture and Society*, edited by Michele Z. Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere, pp.&nbsp;171–187, 333-334.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 1974. 
*MacCormack, Carol P. [Hoffer]. *Bundu: Political Implications of Female Solidarity in a Secret Society*. In *Being Female: Reproduction, Power, and Change*, edited by Dana Raphael, pp.&nbsp;155–163.  The Hague:  Mouton, 1975. 
*MacCormack, Carol P. [Hoffer]. *Health, Fertility and Birth in Moyamba District, Sierra Leone*. In *Ethnography of Fertility and Birth*.  C. P. MacCormack, ed.  pp.&nbsp;115–139.  NY:  Academic Press, 1982. 
* Phillips, Ruth. B. (1995) *Representing Woman: Sande Masquerades of the Mende of Sierra Leone.* Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. 
*Sawyerr, Harry and S. K. Todd (1970) *The Significance of the Numbers Three and Four among the Mende of Sierra Leone*.  Sierra Leone Studies (n.s.) 26: 29-36.