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Book SynopsisRitual, art and secrecy in Casamance, Senegal.
Trade ReviewDe Jong's work covers a diverse array of subjects in the Casamance region of Senegal, a multi-ethnic region in the sway of global modernity, including initiation ceremonies, age-sets and gendering, Islamisation, state formation, civil unrest, and the commoditisation of performance as 'heritage'. [It offers] a solid and thought-provoking engagement with contemporary theoreticians. Nicolas Argenti, Brunel University -- Social Anthropology 17/4 De Jong's work covers a diverse array of subjects in the Casamance region of Senegal, a multi-ethnic region in the sway of global modernity, including initiation ceremonies, age-sets and gendering, Islamisation, state formation, civil unrest, and the commoditisation of performance as 'heritage'. [It offers] a solid and thought-provoking engagement with contemporary theoreticians. Nicolas Argenti, Brunel University
Table of ContentsPart I Introduction; Power of Secrecy; Part II Transitions; Jola Initiations, Gendered Localities; Out of Diaspora, Into the Forest; The Politics of Representation; Part III: Trajectories; Mandinko Initiation: The Making of an Urban Locality; Secrecy, Sacrilege and the State; Part IV Traces; Masquerade and Migration; The Art of Tradition; Writing Secrecy.
