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Annual MANSA Meeting Commemorating the Life and Scholarship of Nehemia Levtzion The 2004 annual meeting of the Mande Studies Association will be at the New Orleans Marriott On Saturday, November l3 at this year's Annual Hotel and is scheduled for Friday, November 12 Meeting of the African Studies Association there from 7:00 to 8:15 am. will be three sessions devoted to the memory of The early hour could have a negative effect Nehamia Levtzion: "Engaging with a Legacy: on attendance which, in any case, is never Nehemia Levtzion and Islam in Africa" representative of the number of MANSA Part I (VII-el2): 9:00-11 members actually attending ASA. Please Part II (VIII-Cl3): 11:15-1:15 consider that this is the only opportunity we have Part III (lX-C6): 3:00-5:00 (Sponsored by the during the entire year to address MANSA Mande Studies Association and the Ghana business, and that your presence is crucial to the Studies Council) ongoing success of the organization.

Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association: MANSA-Sponsored Panel Sixth International Conference on Mande Studies in Gninea, June 2005 "Language and Identity Formation in the Mande Couference Schedule World" Chair: Kassim Kone, SUNY -Cortland 18-19 (Saturday-Sunday): Arrival in Conakry Co-chair: Alex Enkerli, Indiana U and registration at the Novotel (formerly the Tim Geysbeek, Grano Valley State U, A Note on Grand Hotel de l'Independence). Sananguya and Lasiliya in Southern Guinea- 20-22 (Monday-Wednesday) Conakry: Opening Conakry session and panels. Barbara Hoffman, Cleveland State U, The 23 (Thursday): Travel to Kankan. Limits of Memory and Jelikan 24-25 (Friday-Saturday): Panel sessions, John Hutchison, Boston D, Bamanan Cultural University of Kankan. Models in the Emerging Bamanankan Literature 26 (Sunday) Kankan: Sightseeing and Kassim Kone, SUNY -Cortland, Joking musical/cultural events. Relationships in the Mande: Origins, Functions 27 (Monday): Travel back to Conakry. and Identity Formation

David C. Conrad, President, State University of New York-Oswego Kassim Kone, Vice-President, State University of New York-Cortland Catherine Bogosian, Secretary-Treasurer, Wayne State University Adyisory Board Ralph A. Austen, University of Chicago David Henige, University of Wisconsin Rogier Bedaux, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde Susan Mclntosh, Rice University George Brooks, Indiana University Mohamed Saidou N'Daou, Chicago State University Sixth International Confer-eace year to work on a Bamanakan grammar for Studies in Guinea: Call for- ~....,. schools. TIM GEYSBEEK spent the summer (June 29- Prospective participants are we me August 12) in Liberia teaching a class and submitting panel and paper proposals a.)i1ia1e performing some administrative duties at the between now and the deadline, 1 Fd•• ..,· SIM school. 2005. STEN HAGBERG continued his research in Burkina Faso from June 7 to July 4, mostly in Bobo Dioulasso. Up-Date on MANSA Membms' Adlirilils MUSA HAKIM will present a paper at ASA, "Timbuktu: Historical Meaning, Cultural STEPHEN BELCHER is in Guinea Metaphor in Africa and the Diaspora.' Fulbright Fellowship and will be tealtiIiI~ JAN JANSEN has been promoted with tenure University of Kankan, Guinea in LUiI4-

Kirango-MarkaIa, Mali from November~".... 'IIU Communities." January/February 2005, DANIEL REED is co-recipient of the Amaury ISSIAKA DIAKITE will be giving a paper at Talbot Prize for African Anthropology from ASA, "Le griot porteur de parole et de memoire Tbe Royal Anthropological Institute of Great dans I'Afrique moderne et ancienne," Britain and Ireland (RAI). The award is for the GERARD DUMESTRE was in Segu in June boot. Dan Ge Performance Masks and Music where he has been returning several' times a in Contemporary Cote d'Ivoire. The RAI is the orld's longest-established scholarly

2 association dedicated to anthropology. in Bamako. Integrating social anthropological IMO TOULOU will present a paper at ASA, and ethnomusicological points of view, it Oral transmission during Ceremonies studies how urban social contexts shape the Preparation" (based on this year's Kamabolon style of traditional celebration (konyo/wedding) preparation in Kela). music in the city. Aside from theoretical KONRAD TUCHSCHERER was in Cameroon questions, the book also discusses the lives and from January through end of August 2004 daily work of professional drummers in West doing research on the Barnum and Bagam script Africa. traditions. In Foumban he translated a number of important Bamum documents, collected oral Patience Sonko-Godwin. 2004. Trade in the histories regarding the invention, use, and Senegambia Region From the 12th to the Early decline of the script. He worked with the last ur Century (2nd Ed.). Banjul: Sunrise surviving script literate (tied to the older Publishers. generation of script literates) who uses the Originally published in 1988, this expanded Barnum script as his primary form of writing. edition includes studies on internal trade, the In Foumban he also studied an original trans-Atlantic slave trade, and "legitimate language, devised by Sultan Njoya, called trade" from a local Gambian perspective. Pp. Shumom (Shumom is a spoken language often xv, 144; 17 illustrations include line drawings confused by outsiders with the script). and photos (to color), 2 maps, glossary, index. Bibliography includes 14 archival documents. ISBN 9983 9900-4-0 Book, Journal, and Article Releases (Sunrise Publishers, P.O. Box 955, Banjul, The Gambia) BOOKS David C. Conrad. 2004. Sunjata: A West Patience Sonko-Godwin. 2004. Development of African Epic of the Mande Peoples. Cambridge Local Industries in the Senegambia Region MA and Indianapolis IN: Hackett Publishing from the Pre-colonial to the Colonial Period. Co. Pp. xlviii, 206. Thirty-five episodes in Banjul: Sunrise Publishers. 5.446 lines of narrative excerpted from c. Written from a local Gambian perspective and 17,000-line text recorded Fadama, Guinea, in listing two pages of local informants, chapter 1994 (complete, exhaustively annotated topics include local industry and internal trade, scholarly edition eventually forthcoming). soap manufacturing, salt production, ISBN 0-87220-697-1 (pbk) woodcarving, leatherworking, pottery, weaving, ISBN 0-87220-698-X (hardcover) ironworking, and goldsmithing. pp. xv, 119; 27 pages of illustrations including line drawings Rainer Polak 2004. Festmusikals Arbeit and photos (8 color), map, glossary, index. Trommeln als Beruf: Jenbe-Spieler in einer Bibliography includes 4 archival documents. westafrikanischen Grofistadt. Berlin: Reimer ISBN 9983 9900 5 9 Verlag. Includes CD (53 min.), 4 maps, 6 charts, 15 JOURNAL notations, 34 tables, 30 photos, bibliography, Africa Today 29 (4) 2004. Special issue, discography, index, pp. 364. "Mande Hunters, Civil Society and the ISBN 3-496-02771-1 State," Guest Editor, Joseph Hellweg. This book is based on the author's dissertation This volume examines recent activist (defended at Bayreuth university in 2002). It movements organized by hunters in Burkina won the VAD-Nachwuchspreis 2003/04, the Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, and Sierra Leone to German African Studies Association's award respond to crime and civil war. Papers examine for the best dissertation in this field. The book states'responses to such movements, hunters'. deals with the social history, and more alternative legal codes and ideas, their specifically with processes such as rationales for assuming security and military urbanization, professionalization and ' roles, and the contradictory positions in which commodification of jenbe (djembe) drumming these roles have often placed them. The authors

3 seek to determine the extent to which hunters (Heathen) in Diogo de Sa: have either contributed to or undermined functions and levels of meaning)" Clio. Revista security across West Africa as a result of their do Centro de Historia da actions. Universidade de Lisboa, new series, 10: 135- 136. Table of Contents "Security, Socioecology, Polity: Mande Jose da Silva Horta 2004. "0 Islao nos textos Hunters, Civil Society, and Nation-States in portugueses: Noroeste Africano Contemporary. West Africa, " Introduction by (sees. XV-XVII) - das representacoes a Melissa Leach Hist6ria [Islam in Portuguese texts: Western Africa (15th-17th centuries) from "Encompassing the State: Sacrifice and ecority representation to History]" In in the Hunters' Movement of COte d'Ivoire, Ant6nio Custodio Goncalves (ed.), 0 Isldo na Joseph Hellweg A/rica Subsariana - Actas do 6° Coloquio Internacional Estados, Poderes e "Containing the Donzow: The Politics of Scale ldentidades na Africa Subsariana, in Cote d'Ivoire," Thomas J. Bassett Oporto: Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto. "Political Decentralization and Traditional Leadership in the Benkadi Hunters' Association Sten Hagberg. 2003. "Amero et Guimbe: in Western Burkina Faso," Sten Hagberg histoire et religion dans la construction de l'identiti tiefo" in R Kuba & eN. Somda "Hunter Militias and the International Human (eds.), Histoire au peuplement et relations Rights Discourse in Sierra Leone and Beyond, inter-ethniques au Burkina Faso. Paris: Mariane C. Ferme and Danny Hoffman KarthaIa..

"The Intellectuals and the Hunters: Reflections Sten Hagberg. 2004. "Ethnic Identification in on the Conference 'La Rencontre des Chasseurs Voluntary Associations: The Politics of de l'Afrique de l'Ouest'," Karim Traore Development and Culture in Burkina Faso" in H. Englund & F.B. Nyamnjoh (eds.), Rights ARTICLES and the Politics of Recognition in Africa. Sarah Brett-Smith, 2004. "The Knowledge of London and New York: ZED Books. Women" in Marier Westermann (ed.), Anthropologies of Art. Clark Studies in the Fiona Me Laughlin. 2004. "Is there an adjective Visual Arts (Williamstown, MA, Sterling and class in Wolof?" in R.M.W. Dixon and Francine Clark Art Institute). ISBN 0-931102- Alexandra A. Aikhenvald, (eds.) Adjective 55-3, $24.95 (also distributed by Yale classes: A cross-linguistic typology. Oxford: University Press, ISBN 0-300-10353-0). Oxford University Press.

Graeme Council 2004. "Cultural policy and Barbara Polak:. 2003. "Little peasants. On the music in Mali". Africa Quarterly. 43 (3), pp. importance of reliabilty in child labour", in: 36-51. Helene d'Almeida-Topor et. al (eds.) Le travail en Afrique noire - Representations et pratiques Graeme Council. 2004. "Popular Music and a I'epoque contemporaine. Paris: Karthala. Politics in Sekou Tours's Guinea". Australasian Review of African Studies. 26 (1), pp. 26-42. Giuseppina Russo. 2004. "Keledenyasira. L'arte delia guerra. Pratica delle armi e identita a Jose da Silva Horta. 2004. "A categoria de Kignan (Mali)." In Fabio Viti (ed.). Guerra e Gentio em Diogo de Sa: funcoes e violenza in Africa Occidentale, Milan: Franco niveis de significacao [The category of 'Gentio' Angeli.

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RENEWED UNTIL 12/31106 Liza Gijanto Elisabeth den Otter 708 Westcott Street 3rdFloor Syracuse, NY 13210 RENEWED UNTIL 12/31105 [email protected] Cornelia Geising (sponsor) Research interests: Luso-African identity formation; historical archaeology; culture RENEWED UNTIL 12/31/2004 contact in Gambia. Samou Camara Mark Davidheiser Sten Hagberg Banning Eyre PO Box 631 Julianne Freeman SE-751 26 Uppsala Liza Gijanto SWEDEN Odile Goerg Visiting address: Alma Gottlieb Thunbergsvagen 3H Sten Hagberg (sponsor) Ph. +46184717030 Tom Hale Fax +46 184717029- Ylva Hernlund E-mail: [email protected] John Hutchison (sponsor) http://www.antro.uu.se John Johnson Martin Klein (sponsor) Fiona McLaugWin Rod Knight Center for African Studies Kassim Kone (sponsor) University of Florida Frederick Lamp 427 Grinter Hall Fiona McLaughlin Gainesville, FL 32611-5560 Vittorio Morabito [email protected] Victoria Rovine Research interests: The phonology and Kathleen Siobin morphology of the northern Atlantic languages Julie Strand (Wolof, Pulaar and Seereer), and the Valerie Thiers- Thiam sociolinguistics of urban Senegal; Senegalese Craig Tower popular culture, especially Islam and popular Kristina Van Dyke music.

ADDRESS CHANGES Julie Strand Sekou Berte Music Department University of Oregon Wesleyan University Department of Anthropology Middletown, CT 06459 1585 13th A venue [email protected] Eugene, OR Research/teaching interests: ethnomusicology; 97403-5209 smaller Mande sub-groups of Western Burkina [email protected] Faso and their interactions with non-Maude groups; the balafon (all types, non-Mande as Mark Davidheiser well); music and language, including surrogate 23 Dogwood Place languages; Mande identity in minority groups. Sewanee, TN 37375

5 Valerie Thiers- Thiam Fatoumata Keita 862 Union Street #IF sic Ishiaka Niare Brooklyn, NY 11215 em Arrondissement [email protected] Bamako, Mali Research interests: The griot narrator in West fat [email protected] African Literature and Cinema. atban C. McOintock E-MAIL CHANGES 6Z7 Manco Dairy Rd. Banning Eyre Pittsboro, C Z7312 bannin [email protected] [email protected] student at orth Carolina State University Martin Klein (until March) Returned Peace Corps Volunteer; served in [email protected] Dialakoroba (S~) from 1998-2000 Research interests: Sustainable agriculture/low- Claudia Roth input farming & appropriate technology for [email protected] traditional farming systems; local land use/soil fertility classification and knowledge. Tereba Togola [email protected] Elena Perekhvalskaya evsky 82, #84 Richard Warms 191025 St Petersburg [email protected] Russia [email protected] MANSA Web Address elena%@yandex.ru uweb. txstate.edulanthropolog:)-/TNIlL9 Research interests: Dictionary and grammar of the Mwan language (Mande Sud language NEW MEMBERS family). Robert A. Bellinger Suffolk University Giuseppina Russo History Department 2, rue de Chatillon 8 Ashburton Place 75014 Paris, FRANCE Boston, MA 02108 giuppi.russo@wanadooJr [email protected] Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Research interests: Senegalese history and Paris culture; Malinke music and cultural traditions.. Research interests: Narration of precolonial history in southern Mali (region of Sikasso); Tracy Carter oral traditions about the Kenedugu Kingdom 7939 Hollywood Blvd. and other political units of the 19th century. Los Angeles, CA 90046 [email protected] Stephen R. Thompson Research interests: Jalimusolu in Gambia; 300 N. College Street African diaspora retentions, especially relating Northfield, MN 55057 to the power of speech. [email protected] History major, Francophone studies minor . Anna Erman Research interests: Joking cousin relationships; Toreza 102-1-44 the historical/folkloric basis of names and their 194017 St Petersburg social implications; the role of Islam Russia historically, as well as general music, arts and [email protected] culture topics. Research interests: Dictionary and grammar of the Dan (Yakouba) language (Mande Sud language family).

6 s.JJ.ittiog Articles to Mande Studies auteurs d'obtenir toute permission necessaire pour la reproduction. lbe journal of the Mande Studies Association, Nos collegues en Afrique d'ayant pas acces Mande Studies, welcomes articles on all aspects a un ordinateur sont pries d'envoyer un of the Mande world and the peoples and manuscrit dactylographic, et de conserver un cultures that compose it. Submissions will be deuxieme exemplaire pour leur propre usage. peer-reviewed before acceptance. The journal Les articles peuvent etre soumis par voie will accept and publish manuscripts in English electronique a Ariane Deluz or French. (For additional information on (Ariane.Deluz@ehessJr) ou a Stephen Belcher Mande Studies see the web page: ([email protected]); les manuscrits http://www.swt devraient etre addresses a Stephen Belcher ~edu/anthropology/mansa!wisconu.html) (R.D. 1, Box 1000, Petersburg PA, 16669-- Manuscript submissions should be USA). Dans le cas des articles envoyes par typewritten or computer-printed in double- email, Ie texte ne doit pas etre envoye dans Ie spacing, and should be accompanied, if message mais comme fichier attache au mail. possible, with an electronic version of the text Le format prefere, autre que Microsoft Word, on a diskette (IBM/MS-DOS; Mac texts should est Ie "Rich Text File" (suffixe .rtf). be sent bye-mail). Authors must furnish any maps or illustrations in hard copy suitable for reproduction, and are responsible for obtaining Joining MANSA and Renewing Membership any necessary permission. Colleagues from Africa without access to Regular and institutional membership $25, computers should send a typewritten sponsoring membership $40, students $5 manuscript, keeping a copy for their own use. (regular and sponsoring membership includes Submissions may be made electronically to subscription to the journal Mande Studies). Ariane Deluz (Ariane.Deluz@ehessJr) or to Make check out to MANSA and (if you are Stephen Belcher ([email protected] joining) send your institutional affiliation and a or [email protected]); manuscript submissions brief description of your research interests to: should be sent to Stephen Belcher (RD. 1 Box Dr. Catherine Bogosian 1000, Petersburg PA, 16669 USA).ln the case Department of History of electronic submissions, the text should be Wayne State University sent as an attachment and not in the body of the 3094 Faculty/Administration Building message. The preferred format, if not Detroit, MI 48202 WordPerfect or Microsoft Word, is as a 'rich Cell: 267-496-8806 Office: 313-577-6148 text file' (suffix: .rtf). E-mail: [email protected] La revue Etudes Mande invite nos collegues a presenter des contributions portant sur tous les aspects du monde maude et des peuples et des cultures qui le composent. Les articles proposes seront evalues anonymement avant d'etre retenus. La revue accepte et publie des articles en anglais ou en francais. Les manuscrits soumis doivent etre saisis ou imprimes sur ordinateur en double interligne, et devraient s'accompagner si possible de la version electronique du texte sur disquette (format IBM/MS-Dos). Les textes composes sur Macintosh doivent nous parvenir commes fichiers attaches a un email. Les auteurs sont pries de fournir leurs cartes et illustrations sur papier, d'une qualitepermettant la reproduction. II est de la responsabilite des