Djinns, stars, and warriors :: Mandinka legends from Pakao, Senegal /

This book contains some of the finest examples of Mandinka oral tradtions ever published, both in English and the original Mandinka, along with a chapter of Mandinka Arabic script texts translated into English. As a complement to the author's ethnography of the Mandinka published in 1980/1987,...

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Weitere Verfasser: Schaffer, Matt
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Mandingo
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Schriftenreihe:African sources for African history ; v. 5.
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Zusammenfassung:This book contains some of the finest examples of Mandinka oral tradtions ever published, both in English and the original Mandinka, along with a chapter of Mandinka Arabic script texts translated into English. As a complement to the author's ethnography of the Mandinka published in 1980/1987, this book presents legends about jihad leaders, witchcraft, local Islam, cosmology, the founding of villages, great leaders among women, notable social institutions and other significant people and places. The Pakao country of southern Senegal developed into a West African center of pilgrimage. This book reveals the linguistic richness of Mandinka as an African literature in its own right and contributes to broader Mande studies. Since Mandinka figured prominently in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, this book also lays a basis for future work by the author on a cultural legacy of Mandinka in the New World.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 221, [2] pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (page 222) and index.
ISBN:9004492380
9789004492387
ISSN:1567-6951 ;

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