MANSA Members

Send all requests for updates to: Mark Worrell, SUNY Cortland, Department of Sociology and Anthropology: [email protected]

Updated: July 19, 2011

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Akare John Aden Baxter Hall, Room 127 Wabash College Crawfordsville IN 47933 [email protected] Research Interests: Komo; Segu; history, Mali

African Studies Association Rutgers University, Douglass Campus 132 George St. New Brunswick NJ 08901-1400 Http://www.africanstudies.org

Noemie Arazi Chausee de Foret 287 B1190 Brussels, BELGIUM [email protected] Research Interests: Mali oral traditions, historical sources, ceramics, archaeology, ethnoarchaeology in relation to Ghana, Mali, Songhai Empire, Mali

Mary Jo Arnoldi Smithsonian Institution 4600 Connecticut Ave., NW, #220 Washington DC 20008 [email protected] Research Interests: Visual and performing arts; public culture in Mali; museums, monuments, and popular visual representations; social organization; gender, Mali

Laura Arntson 106 Walnut St., NW Washington DC 20012 [email protected] Research Interests: Music and verbal art; history, migration, and identity; relief and development program planning, monitoring, and evaluation; Sankaran Maninka, Guinea, Sierra Leone

Catherine Ash Wayne State Univ. Dept of History 3094 Faculty/Administration Bldg. Detroit MI 48202 [email protected] Research Interests: labor; colonial history, Mali

Ralph Austen U. Chicago, Comm. for African & Afr-Am St. 5828 South University Ave. Chicago IL 60637 [email protected] Research Interests: Political economy and cultural dimensions of European overseas expansion; the Atlantic Slave Trade in African and African- American memory and the historical development of African oral and written literature (focusing on the Mande region)

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Issaka Bagayogo Direction Nationale des Industries, s/c Mme Bagayogo Mariam Sidibe BP 278 Bamako MALI Research Interests:

Alpha Bah College of Charleston Dept. of History Charleston SC 29424 [email protected] Research Interests: African history, African diaspora; Islam in Africa , Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea

Mamadou Sadialiou Bah Universit de Kankan B.P. 209 Kankan, GUINEA

Maladho Siddy Balde Universit de Conakry Dpartement d'Histoire B.P. 1147 Conakry GUINEA [email protected] Research Interests: History of the Rio Pongo , Guinea

Tom Bassett University of Illinois Dept. of Geography 220 Davenport Hall 607 South Matthews Ave. Urbana IL 61801 [email protected] Research Interests: Land rights; savanna environments; agrarian systems; Fulani pastoralism; history of cartography , Senegal, Guinea

Wenda Bauchspies Society & Women's Studies Pennsylvania State University 101 Old Botany Building University Park PA 16802 [email protected] Research Interests: science, gender and culture in West Africa , Guinea

Abdoulie Bayo P.M.B. 151 Banjul, THE GAMBIA

Larry Becker Oregon State University Dept. of Geosciences 104 Wilkinson Hall Corvallis OR 97331- 5506 [email protected] Research Interests: Peasant agriculture; impact of natural resource policy reform; fieldwork experience in Mali and Cote d'Ivoire , Mali, Cote d'Ivoire

Rogier Bedaux Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde Koningslaan 35 3583 GH Utrecht The Netherlands Research Interests:

Marlies Bedeker Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, G.J. de Jonghweg 4-6, 3015 GG Rotterdam The Netherlands, email: [email protected] Research interests: urban development, citizenship, and community development

Louise Bedichek Office of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Bureau of African Affairs, Dept of State Washington DC 20520 [email protected] Research Interests: Guinea

Stephen Belcher Humphrey Fellows, Penn State 4781 Shavers Creek Rd. Petersburg PA 16669 [email protected] Research Interests: African epic and historical narratives; world mythology; literature; folklore

Alice Bellagamba Univ of Milan-Bicocca, Human Sciences for education Via Legnano 4 10128 Torino ITALY [email protected] Research Interests: Gambian Fuladu colonial and post-colonial history; Fuladu historical narrations; particular interest in power and symbols

Robert Bellinger Suffolk University History Department 8 Ashburton Place Boston MA 02108 [email protected] Research Interests: Senegalese history and culture; Malinke music and cultural traditions

Ms. Amie Bensouda P.O. Box 907 Banjul, THE GAMBIA

Sekou Berte University of Oregon Dept of Anthropology 1585 - 13th Avenue Eugene OR 97403-5209 [email protected] Research Interests:

Ms. Fatou Bin Jobe c/o P.O. Box 907 Banjul THE GAMBIA

Caroline Bledsoe Northwestern University Department of Anthropology 1810 Hinman St. Evanston IL 60208 Research Interests: Social organization, demography, Liberia, Sierra Leone, The Gambia

Jeff Bodony 20342 Widme Road Poulsbo WA 98370 [email protected] Research Interests: music, jaliya & traditional stories & culture

Louise Bourgault Northern Michigan University Dept. of CAPS 1401 Presque Isle Ave. Marquette MI 49855 [email protected] Research Interests: all aspects of Media in Africa; recent focus on HIV/AIDS pandemic, especially in Mande & Southern Africa & how popular arts, including the media, have been used in the struggle against HIV/AIDS

Dinie Bouwman, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Gr.Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands Research Interests: Arabic, Islam in West Africa; Sociolinguistics; Education, and Language Policy [email protected]

Manuel Braga Departamento de Historia Alameda de Universidade 1600-214 Lisboa PORTUGAL Research Interests:

Saskia Brand BP E-825 Bamako, MALI [email protected]

Anneke Breedveld Schubertlann 143 2324 CS Leiden The Netherlands Research Interests:

Sarah Brett-Smith 287-A Nassau Street Princeton NJ 08540 [email protected] Research Interests: Bamana/Malinke sculpture and the rituals surrounding its manufacture; Dogon, Senufo, Bobo textiles esp. mudcloth, symbolism of traditional mud cloth; menstruation, childbirth, menopause, and fertility issues for women, Mali

George Brooks Indiana University 1615 E. University St. Bloomington IN 47401- 5201 [email protected] Research Interests: Western Africa, with special interests in Guinea-Bissau, trade networks, climate patterns, Kru, and Luso-Africans, Guinea-Bissau, Senegambia

Stephan Buehnen Bremer Stiftung fr Geschichte Parkallee 257 28213 Bremen GERMANY [email protected] Research Interests: History, social-cultural anthropology; precolonial Senegambia and Western Sudan, prehistorical Europe Stephen Bulman Newman College Genners Lane, Bartley Green Birmingham B32 3NT UNITED KINGDOM [email protected] Research Interests: Epic of Sunjata and related oral traditions; use of oral traditions for historical research; Kulikoro and traditions about Sumanguru (Sumaworo) Kante and Soso (Susu), Mali, Guinea

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Bachir Camara Chef, Sect. Arts & Culture Dir. Pref. de la Jeunesse des Arts & Sports B.P. 141 Kindia GUINEA Research Interests:

Brahima Camara Universit du Mali FLASH Departement d'Allemande B.P. 241 Bamako MALI [email protected] Research Interests: Mande hunters' literature; the work of Bala Jinba Diakite, the famous Malian hunters' bard, and Siramori Diabate, Mali

Samou Camara, Instituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, Rome, ITALY Research Interests: Paleoanthropology and Prehistory. Scientific Director of the Italian Archaeological and Anthropological Research Mission in the Sankarani Valley (Municipality of Sere Moussa ani Samou di Siékorolé) in Mali. [email protected]

Sekou Camara Lycee de Ibrahim Ly Banankabougou BPE 1069 Bamako MALI Research Interests:

Seydou Camara Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako, MALI, Research Interests: Manding plateau, pre-colonial history, decentralization, oral traditions, Mali

Tracey Carter 339 Palm Ave. Oakland CA 94610 [email protected] Research Interests: Female griots in the Gambia. Fieldwork in the Gambia and Maliplanned; interested in African diaspora retentions, particularly those issues relating to the power of speech

Baba Ceesay National Council for Arts & Culture, PMB 151 Banjul, THE GAMBIA

Saikou Ceesay P.O. Box 81 Banjul, THE GAMBIA, Research Interests:

Eric Charry Music Department Wesleyan University Middletown CT 06459 [email protected]

Larry Childs Timbuktu Heritage Institute c/o Cultural Survival 215 Prospect St. Cambridge MA 02138 [email protected] Research Interests: Conserve Timbuktu manuscripts in Mali, fostering sustainable development, Mali

Maria Luisa Ciminelli, Via Pier Paolo Pasolini 51/F8, (1) 00135 Rome, ITALY, [email protected] Research Interests: Ethnopsychiatry; cognitive semantics; cultural translation; kinship; Bamana, Mali

Oumar Cisse Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako, MALI Research Interests: Seydouba Cisse Archives Nationales BP 561 Conakry GUINEA [email protected] Research Interests:

Annie Clment Univ. de Montreal 2670 Boul. Du Lac Brl Chertsey Quebec J0K 3K0 CANADA [email protected]

Victoria Bomba Coifman U. Minnesota, Dept. of Afr Am & African St. 808 Soc. Sci. Bldg. 267- 19th Ave. S. Minneapolis MN 55455 [email protected] Research Interests: History - Rios Pongo & Nunes, Guinea

Ibrahima Conde Librairie N'Ko BP 1119 Conakry GUINEA [email protected] Research Interests: Sociologist; Professor and specialist of Nko and of Soulemana Kante, member of the Nko Academy, Curator--Nko bookstore, Guinea

David C. Conrad P.O. Box 72 Stinson Beach CA 94970 [email protected] Research Interests: History: early kingdoms of the savannah, oral tradition, influence of Islam, development of social structure, Guinea, Mali

Eduardo Costa Dias Centro de Estudos Africanos - ISCTE Avenida das Forcas Armadas 1600 Lisboa PORTUGAL [email protected]

Graeme Counsel African Studies Association of Australasia & Pacific 19 Orient Gve. West Preston 3072 Victoria AUSTRALIA [email protected] Research Interests: Cultural policy, history and the arts in Guinea, Mali, Senegal, and The Gambia. Music--especially the pre-1980 orchestras. Syliphone recordings

Brandon County Columbia University P.O. Box 250641 New York NY 10025 [email protected] Research Interests: 20th century Malian History; regional & national identity in postcolonial West Africa; urban history and politics; migration, labor, urbanization & development; youth and political change, Mali

Marie Yvonne Curtis 6, rue Ernest Psichari 75007 Paris FRANCE [email protected] Research Interests: art history of West Africa, especially the Guinea coast; women, gender and development, Guinea, Senegal

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Diadie Yacouba Dagnoko Directeur des Arts et de la Culture BP 91 Bamako MALI

Mirjam De Bruijn Leiden University African Studies Center P.O. Box 9555 2300 RB Leiden The Netherlands Research Interests: Pastoralism, nomadism, climatic change, social security, identity, interethnic relations, Social Anthropology Area: dry zones of Africa, Sahel,Countries: Mali, Burkina-Faso , Cameroon Ethnic groups: Fulbe (Peul, Fulani), Tuareg, Sahel

Ferdinand de Jong World Art & Museology Fac. of Hum. & Arts Univ of East Anglia Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ UNITED KINGDOM [email protected] Research Interests: ethnicity; masquerades; globalization; memory and heritage in Senegal; commodification of tradition, museums and tourism; traditional methods of conflict resolution; interpretation of the Joola shipwreckage; secrecy in initiation rites and masquerades, Senegal

Rosa De Jorio University of North Florida Soc, Anthro & Crim Justice, UNF 4567 St. Johns, Blugg Rd. S Jacksonville FL 32224-2645 [email protected] Research Interests: Gender and politics in urban Mali

Paulo F. de Moraes Farias The University of Birmingham; Centre of West African Studies 136 Greenfield Rd Harborne Birmingham B17 0EG UNITED KINGDOM [email protected] Research Interests: Arabic epigraphy and the interfaces between Islamic and other cultures in West Africa

Fleur DeJong Van Gentstraat 22 b 6524 BC Nnijmegen The Netherlands Research Interests: musicians, jembe players, Hamana region, malinke/susu/peul relations, Guinea

Ariane Deluz Laboratoire d'anthropologies sociale 52 rue de Cardinal-Lemoine College de France 75005 Paris FRANCE [email protected] Research Interests: Guro and Youre of Ivory Coast: social organisation, kinship,women studies, ethnopsychiatry, social change, AIDS, Cote d'Ivoire

Karim Dembele Lycee de Badalabougou BP 08 Bamako MALI

Elisabeth den Otter 2e Egelantiersdwarsstraat 75 1015 SB Amsterdam The

Netherlands [email protected] Research Interests: Music, masquerade, dance

Dielimankan Diabate Centre National de Resources de Education Non-Formelle CNR-ENF Ministere de l'edu cation du Mali BP 62 Bamako MALI Research Interests: Linguistics, phonology, and dialectology

Boubacar Hama Diaby Mission Culturelle de Djenne BP 25 Region de Mopti MALI Research Interests:

Bah Diakite Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako MALI [email protected] Research Interests: Collecte de la litterature orale; langues nationales (du Mali); le NKO, mouvement culturel et de l'alphabetisation.

Issiaka Diakite 2959 Apalachee Parkway Apt D#27 Tallahassee FL 32301 [email protected] Research Interests: African cinema and literature

Ahmadou Oury Diallo Direction Generale de la Culture BP 391 Conakry GUINEA

Mamadou Dian Cherif Diallo Universit de Conakry Departement d'Histoire Universit de Conakry BP 1147 Conakry GUINEA

Abdou Diallo USAID Bureau de developpement agricole USAID BP 34 Bamako MALI Mamadou Kodiougou Diallo Universit de Conakry BP 1147 Conakry GUINEA

Baday Dian Centre de Recherch des Civilisations Africaines 01 BP 258 Bobo-Dioulasso 01 BURKINA FASO [email protected]

Seydou Diarra BP 1227 Bamako MALI

Tieman Diarra WHO/AFRO P.O. Box BE 773 Belverde Harare ZIMBABWE [email protected]

Mamadou Diawara Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitt Grueneburgplatz 1 60323 Frankfurt am Main GERMANY [email protected] Research Interests:

Bassirou Dieng Universit de Dakar Departement des lettres modernes Dakar SENEGAL

Abdoulaye Bara Diop IFAN Universit de Dakar BP 206 Dakar SENEGAL

Samba Diop DEAP/MRTC BP 1805 Bamako MALI Research Interests: ethnoepidemiology; medical anthropology of infectious and noninfectious diseases; parasitism ecology (malaria, schistosomiasis); population, environment and health; sociocultural and gender relationships; human ecology and anthropology, Mali

Ann Doquet 18, rue Basfroi 75011 Paris FRANCE [email protected] Research Interests: Anthropologie, tourisme

Isaie Dougnon Point Sud BP 3266 Bamako MALI [email protected] Research Interests: Labour migration from Dogon country to Ghana and Office du Niger (1910-1980)

Amadou Doumbia Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako MALI Research Interests: Linguistics, national languages of Mali, Islamologie, Mali

Karinkan Doumbouya Universit de Kankan BP 209 Kankan GUINEA

Sainey Drammeh 1005 N. Jenison Avenue Lansing MI 48915-1411 [email protected]

Kristina Grosman Due Frisersvej 22 D 2920 Charlottenlund DENMARK [email protected] Research Interests: Social anthropology, Guinea

Gerard Dumestre INALCO 2, rue de Lille 75343 Paris Cedex 07 FRANCE Research Interests: Bambara language, Malian society

Lucy Duran SOAS-University of London 25 Cantelowes Road London NW1 9XR UNITED KINGDOM [email protected] Research Interests: Mande jeliya; wassoulou music; women singers; the kora; (dance band) music of Mali and Senegal; gender and mande music in the world music market; cross-currents between Cuban and African music in the 20th century

Ryan Durkopp Univ. of Pittsburgh 205 North Dallas, Apt. #2 Pittsburgh PA 15208 [email protected] Research Interests: Interactions of culture and musical expression; jeliya traditions, language, power, and gender ~E~

Ian B. Edwards University of Oregon 1820 W. 14th Ave. Eugene OR 97402 [email protected] Research Interests: Wildlife; local agencies; globalization; applied anthropology, Mali

Charity Ellis Made from Scratch Films 905 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Oakland CA 94607 [email protected] Research Interests: Feature documentaries (griots, griottes). interested in mande music, language, caste system, general culture and the changing role of griots

Alexandre Enkerli Indiana University 14 Western Ave. Northampton MA 01060 [email protected] Research Interests: Praise-songs of the hunters' association; ethnomusicology; ethnolinguistics, Mali

Anna Erman Toreza 102-1-44 194017 St. Petersburg RUSSIA [email protected] Research Interests: Work on the dictionary and grammar of the Dan (Yakouba) language (Mande Sud language family), Cote d'Ivoire

Banning Eyre 214 High Street Middleton CT 06457 [email protected] Research Interests: Contemporary Malian musicians; AfroPop; Manding guitar, Djelimady Tounkara and the Super Rail Band

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Armelle Favre-Osei 411 Boston Avenue Takoma Park MD 20912 [email protected]

Edda Fields-Black Department of History Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15206 [email protected] Research Interests: Precolonial West African history; social history of the Rio Nunez to 1880, Guinea

Vera Flaig Univ. of Michigan 350 Highland Rd. Chelsea MI 48118-9740 [email protected] Research Interests: Jenbe and doundoun performance; N American and European Malinke drumming communities; comparison of ballet, village and institutional versions of drum and dance pieces, Guinea

Henrike Florusbosch University of Michigan 1927 Dexter Ave. Ann Arbor MI 48103 [email protected] Research Interests: Mande potters; fieldwork in Narena and Siby, Mali

Salim Fofana Universit de Kankan BP 209 Kankan GUINEA

Paul Folmer Obrechstraat 254 2517 VD Den Haag The Netherlands Research Interests: Western Mande; marriage, ethnographic film on the Mande; current research in Tambacounda, Eastern Senegal

Barbara Frank Stony Brook Univ. & Nat'l Museum of African Art Dept. of Art Stony Brook, NY 11794- 5400 Research Interests: Mande artistic traditions, especially leatherwork, textiles and pottery; nyamakalaw history and identity, Mali

Julianne Freeman 707 Carriage Place Durango CO 81301 [email protected] Research Interests: The experience of ageing and gender among the Bamana, with a particular focus on the everyday lives of senior Bamana women, Mali

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Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Assistant Professor of Arts of Africa, Art Department - CG109 The City College of, The City University of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, New York 10031, email: [email protected]

Gerald Gaillard Universit de Lille 41 Boulevard Clemenceau 59 510 HEM FRANCE [email protected]

David Gamble Prof. Emeritus, San Francisco State Univ. 268 Klamath Street Brisbane CA 94005- 1151 Research Interests: Prof. Emeritus (Anthropology) San Francisco State University; peoples and languages of Senegal and The Gambia; bibliography of The Gambia

Daouda Gary Universit de Paris 7 69, Boulevard Vincent-Auriel 75013 Paris FRANCE [email protected] Research Interests: Mali, Cte dIvoire, History, Migration

Tim Geysbeek 112 Rhett Court Fort Mill SC 29715 [email protected] Research Interests: History of the Manding and their neighbors in southeast Guinea from early times to Samori; 19th century travel accounts from Monrovia into the interior, Guinea, Liberia

Cornelia Giesing Gerhard Storm Su 25 D-46459 Rees 3 GERMANY [email protected] Research Interests: Oral tradition and historiography in Guinea-Bissau (center and north); traditions on/from Manding in multi-ethnic contexts at it's periphery; traditional religious networks; inter-cultural relations, Guinea-Bissau

Odile Goerg Labo SEDET/CNRS U. Paris D. Diderot 59 rue Nationale, 2 Etage F-75013 Paris FRANCE [email protected] Research Interests: urban history (social and economic history in cities); gender; identity and representation, Guinea, Sierra Leone

Fritz Goerling Summer Institute of Linguistics P.O. Box 628200 Orlando FL 32862- 8200 [email protected] Research Interests: Bible translation, Islam

Janet Goldner 52 Warren St. New York NY 10007 [email protected] Research Interests: Mali, Artisans and contemporary artists in Segou and environs as well as in Bamako. Artist Goldwater Library Metropolitan Musuem of Art 5th Avenue and 82nd Street New York NY 10028

Alma Gottlieb Department of Anthropology University of Illinois 607 South Mathews Ave. Urbana IL 61801 [email protected] Research Interests: Gender, religion, family life, fieldwork, ethics, writing; current research/writing project: infancy and young childhood in W. Africa, Cote d'Ivoire

Knut Graw Africa Research Centre Catholic Univ. of Leuven Van Evenstraat 2A BE-3000 Leuven BELGIUM [email protected] Research Interests: divinatory ritual/practice in Senegal and Gambia; Further research interests include relicious practice (Islam), healing, dream experience

Maria Grosz-Ngate African Studies Program Indiana University Woodburn Hall 221 Bloomington IN 47405 [email protected] Research Interests: Gender, migration and social transformation; consumption; construction of identity and community.

Marame Gueye Vassar College 124 Raymond Ave. Box 554 Poughkeepsie NY 12604 [email protected] Research Interests: verbal art of women in Senegal; dissertation entitled: Wolof Wedding Songs: Women Negotiating Voice and Space Through Verbal Art, Senegal

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Sten Hagberg Uppsala University Box 631 SE-751 26 Uppsala SWEDEN [email protected] Research Interests: Inter-ethnic relations (Fulbe-Mande); Burkina Faso; perceptions of the environment. Burkina Faso

Musa Abdul Hakim Buffalo State College E.H. Butler Library Rm 107 1300 Elmwood Ave Buffalo NY 14222 [email protected] Research Interests: Manding, jaliya, Islam in West Africa; Information and communication technologies in Africa; African libraries - Sahelian and Saharan

Thomas Hale Pennsylvania State University French Dept 325 Burrowes Building University Park PA 16802 [email protected] Research Interests: African literature in both Western and African languages; African systems of writing; oral epic in Africa; oral tradition in Sahel and Savanna; griots and griottes

Diaby Boubacar Hama Mission Culturelle Djenne, Ministere de la culture du Mali BP 25 Djenne MALI [email protected] Research Interests: Archaeology, cultural management

Walter Hawthorne Dept. of History, Michigan State Univ. 301 Morrill Hall East Lansing MI 48824 [email protected] Research Interests: Guinea Bissau, Slavery, Slave Trade

Christopher Hayden Department of History Northwestern University Evanston IL 60208 [email protected] Research Interests:

Joseph Hellweg Florida State University 501 Blair Stone Rd, #29 Tallahassee FL 32301 [email protected] Research Interests: Religion, politics, aesthetics, performance

David Henige University of Wisconsin Memorial Library 728 State Street Madison WI 53706 [email protected] Research Interests: historical method; oral tradition

Eugenia Herbert Mount Holyoke 26 Ashfield Lane South Hadley MA 01075 [email protected] Research Interests: Pre-colonial African technologies, esp. metallurgy, and associated belief systems. Also, late colonialism in the Upper Zambezi

Ylva Hernlund Department of Anthropology University of Washington Box 353100 Seattle WA 98195 [email protected] Research Interests: Psychological, feminist, and visual anthropology. Research focus on female circumcision, healing, and women s kanyeleng societies in the Gambia.

Nicholas Hockin Wesleyan University 256 Washington St. Apt. 405 Middletown CT 06457 [email protected] Research Interests: Ethnomusicology, anthropology, history, music in Bamako, jenbe, identity issues, tradition and modernity, urbanization, Mali

Barbara Hoffman, Dept of Anthropology, Cleveland State University, 2300 Chester Ave, Cleveland OH, 44115-3696: [email protected] Research Interests: Language and social identity, caste, power, gender, culture change, Mali.

Christian K. Hjbjerg, Saxo Institute, Ethnology Section, Njalsgade 80 DK-2300 Copenhagen K Denmark: [email protected] Research Interests: Loma; religion; political culture; environment. Guinea, Liberia.

Nicholas Hopkins, American University in Cairo, PO Box 2511, Cairo, 11511, Egypt: [email protected] Research Interests: Social organization and culture.

Jose da Silva Horta, Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Depto de Historia Alameda da Universidade 1600- 124 Lisboa, Portugal: [email protected]

Allen Howard, Department of History, Rutgers University, 16 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1106: [email protected] Research Interests: Sierra Leone and Guinea; urbanization and ethnicity; trade; application of spatial analysis to African history.

John Hutchison, Boston University, 511 Main Street, West Newbury, MA, 01985: [email protected] Research Interests: Bamanan language and oral traditions; Julakan, Maninkakan; literature; comparative Mande language studies.

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Pascal Imperato Prev Med & Comm Health SUNY Health Sci 450 Clarkson Ave., Box 43 Brooklyn NY 11220-2098 [email protected] Research Interests: Bamana art, health care systems in the Sahel, Mali

Africana Library, Indiana University Main Library, E660 Bloomington IN 47405

Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa Complexo Escobar 14 de Nov. Barrio Cobormel Bissau GUINEA-BISSAU

Shigeko Izumi-Shearer 3-7-2-703 WP Musashikoyama II Koyama, Shinagawa Tokyo 142-0063 JAPAN [email protected]

Jan Jansen Leiden University John Winnubstlaan 13 3533 EA Utrecht The Netherlands [email protected]

Marloes Janson Zentrum Moderner Orient Kirchweg 33 14129 Berlin GERMANY [email protected]

Sidia Jatta P.O. Box 2306 Serrekunda THE GAMBIA

John Johnson Indiana University Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology 504 N. Fess Street Bloomington IN 47405 [email protected] Research Interests: African folklore, Bamana epic traditions

Michelle Johnson Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology Bucknell University 210 Coleman Lewisburg PA 17837 [email protected] Research Interests: Guinea-Bissau, identity

James A. Jones West Chester Univ. of Pennsylvania 506 Main Hall West Chester PA 19383 [email protected]

Gunvor Jonsson University of Copenhagen Langagervej 3, 1-tv 2500 Valby DENMARK [email protected] Research Interests: villagers' conceptions of life in Western Europe, and the social significance of these conceptions, particularly in relation to migration to Western Europe, Mali (Kayes)

Kaspar Juffermans Ghent University Wasbrug 1 2910 Essen BELGIUM

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Lansine Kaba University of Illinois, Chicago Dept. of African-American Studies (MC 069) 601 South Morgan St Chicago IL 60607-7112 [email protected] Thiemoko Kante Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako MALI

Allaye Karambe DNAC Division du Patrimoine Culturel -DNAC BP 91 Bamako MALI

Agnes Kedzierska INALCO/LLACAN CNRS, Paris 1434 F. Street, NE Washington DC 20002 [email protected]

Susan Keech McIntosh Anthropology Dept. Rice University P.O. Box 1892 Houston TX 77251 [email protected] Research Interests: Archaeology, Mali

Cheick M. Cherif Keita Dept. of Romance Languages & Literature Carleton College One North College Street Northfield MN 55057 [email protected]

Cheick Oumar Keita Muse Nationale du Mali BP 159 Bamako MALI

Daouda Keita Universit du Mali Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako MALI [email protected]

Fatoumata Keita c/e ichiaka Niare 7eme arrondissement Bamako MALI

Mariam Keita CRI - Centre de recherche iniatique BP 922 Bamako MALI [email protected]

Maghan Keita 433 SAC Villanova University Villanova PA 19085 [email protected]

Lansana Keita Lyce Massa Makan Diabat BPE 4138 Bamako MALI

Candace Keller Indiana University 813 Esperanza Place Chula Vista CA 91914 [email protected] Research Interests: Mande social & aesthetic theory; photography & art in MaliMali

Lilyan Kestleloot Lab. Du litterature orale africaine IFAN, Universit de Dakar BP 206 Dakar SENEGAL

Demba Moulaye Kida AGETIPE - Mali BP 2398 Bamako MALI

Lazare Ki-Zerbo 34 rue du Prsident Wilson 78 230 Le Pecq FRANCE [email protected]

Georges Ki-Zerbo 01 BP 606 Ouagadougou 01 BURKINA FASO [email protected]

Martin A. Klein 100 St. George Street Univ. of Toronto, Dept of History Toronto M5S 3G3 CANADA [email protected]

Roderic Knight Conservatory of Music Oberlin College 77 West College Street Oberlin OH 44074- 1588 [email protected]

Dolores Koenig American University Anthro. Dept. American U. 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC 20016-8003 [email protected] Alpha Oumar Konare BP 1744 Bamako MALI

Yacouba Konate Universit Nationale 09 BP 301 Abidjan 09 IVORY COAST

Fanfode Konde OPC/Guine BP 336 Kankan GUINEA

Kassim Kone Department of Sociology & Anthropology SUNY Cortland Cortland NY 13045 [email protected]

Theodore L. Konkouris, Queen's University Belfast, PhD Candidate, School of History & Anthropology [email protected] Research interests: Anthropology; Ethnomusicology; Mande Hunters and their music.

Facely Kourouma s/c Mr. Seydou Doumbouya Ministere de l'Environment BP 3118 Conakry GUINEA [email protected]

Aboubacar Kourouma Lycee Dabola BP 2 Dabola GUINEA

N'Fanly Kouyate Universit de Conakry Administration #111 BP 1147 Conakry GUINEA

Lancei Kouyate Universit de Conakry Dept. d'Histoire BP 1149 Conakry GUINEA

Diemory Kouyate Univ. Bonn Europaring 22 53123 Bonn GERMANY

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Scott Lacy U.C. Santa Barbara c/o Public Affairs Officer U.S. Department of State 2050 Bamako Place Washington DC 20521-2050 [email protected]

Mamadou Lamine INSS-CNRST 03 BP 7047 Ouagadougou BURKINA FASO [email protected]

Frederick Lamp Yale University Art Gallery P.O. Box 208271 New Haven CT 06520- 8721 [email protected] Research Interests: Performance, masquerade, identity, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau

Dierk Lange Univ. of Bayreuth Geschichte Afrikas Universitt Bayreuth 95440 Bayreuth GERMANY [email protected]

Kirsten Langeveld Van Tuyll van Serooskerkenplein 42-I 1076 NC Amsterdam The Netherlands [email protected]

Joe Lauer Michigan State University Africana Library, 110 Library East Lansing MI 48824- 1048 [email protected]

Robert Launay Anthropology Department Northwestern University 1810 Hunman Avenue Evanston IL 60208 [email protected]

Adria LaViolette Department of Anthropology University of Virginia P.O. Box 400120 Charlottesville VA 22904-4120 [email protected]

Vincent LeBlan EHESS 3, impasse Naboulet 75017 Paris FRANCE [email protected]

Baz Lecocq Zentrum Moderner Orient Kichweg 33 D14129 Berlin GERMANY [email protected]

Barbara Lewis Department of Political Science Rutgers University Hickman Hall New Brunswick NJ 08901 [email protected]

Library of Congress Exchange and Gift Division Washington DC 20540-4050

Carlos Lopes UNDP EOSG 1 UN Plaza New York NY 10003 [email protected]

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Ismail Maiga, Institute National des Langues et Civilisations 2, rue de Lille, 75007, Paris, FRANCE

Gregory Mann, History Department, Columbia University, 611 Fayerweather Hall, New York, NY 10027: [email protected]

Adama Mara, rue 368, Porte 189 Dravela, Bamako, Mali: [email protected]

Cheick Oumar Mara Div. du Patrimonie Culturel Min. Art, Sports, Culture, BP 159 Bamako, Mali.

Peter Mark, Wesleyan University, 1-5 Canterbury Court, Middletown, CT, 06457: [email protected]

Pekka Masonen, Dept. of History, 33014, University of Tampere, Tampere Finland: [email protected]

Andreas Massing, 11 Muehe, D-55413, Bingen, Rhine, Germany: [email protected]

Tamba M'Bayo, 13777 Mirage Court, Holland, MI 49424: [email protected]

Nathan McClintock, 469 41st St., Oakland, CA: 94609 [email protected]

Roderick McIntosh, Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University, 51 Hill House Ave., New Haven, CT, 06520: [email protected] Research Interests: archaeology, Mali

Fiona McLaughlin Center for African Studies University of Florida 427 Grinter Hall Gainesville FL 32611-5560 [email protected]

Patrick McNaughton Fine Arts Building, Rm. #132 Indiana University Bloomington IN 47405 [email protected] Research Interests: Art, Mali

Memorial Library/AREA-CTS Room 330 University of Wisconsin Madison WI 53706-1494

Ministere d'Affaires Etrangeres B.P. 2519 Conakry GUINEA

Marie Miran 4524 Whitney St. Bellingham WA 98229 [email protected] Research Interests: Islam, identity, Cote dIvoire

Philip Misevich Emory University 3052 Tolbert Drive Decatur GA 30033 [email protected]

Issa Mohamed Timbuktu Heritage Institute 2188 Riverview Drive Madera CA 93637 [email protected]

Vittorio Morabito Universite di Catania, Dipartimento Studi Politici 79, rue de Vouill F-75015 Paris FRANCE [email protected]

William Moseley Macalester College Dept. of Geography 1600 Grand Aveneu Saint Paul MN 55105- 1899 [email protected]

Kay P. Moseley 4000 Cathedral Ave NW, Apt. 238B Washington DC 20016 [email protected]

Anne Moseng-Knutsen Kryssun 28 0583 Oslo NORWAY [email protected] Research Interests: Sociolinguistics (esp. West Africa); creolization of French in Cote d'Ivoire; the Dioula language in Cote d'Ivoire

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Nienke Muurling University of Amsterdam Varenstraat 358 358 3765 WX SOEST The Netherlands [email protected] Research Interests: Jelimuso, Mali

National Museum of African Art Library Smithsonian Institution Libraries Washington DC 20560

Mohamed Saidou N'Daou Dept. of Pol. Sci., Chicago State U. SCI 116 A, S. King Drive Chicago IL 60628-1598 [email protected] Issa N'Diaye Ministere de la CRS BP 2648 Bamako MALI

The New York Public Library Schomburg -- Attn: Acquisitions 515 Lamcolm X Blvd. New York NY 10037

Robert Newton 125 West Lakeside St. Madison WI 53715 [email protected]

Djibril Tamsir Niane Belle Vue - Route de Kaporo BP 555 Conakry GUINEA

Tatiana Nikitina Stanford University 2000 Walnut Ave., Apt. 1104 Fremont CA 94538 [email protected] Research Interests: SE Mande syntax, semantics, grammar

Northwestern University Library Herskovits Library of African Studies Attn: Daniel Britz Evanston IL 60201

Kjell Nyland Maarskrenten 24 N-6425 MOLDE NORWAY [email protected] Research Interests: History, culture, music of peoples of Western Mali, especially khassonk, malink, peul

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Donald Osborn #4, Entry 2, Bldg. 13 Chuan Da Hua Yan Han Yan 1 Ke Hua Jie Chengdu Sichuan 610021 CHINA [email protected] Research Interests: Language and agricultural development, communication, Mali, Guinea

Emily Lynn Osborn Dept of History, U. Notre Dame 219 O'Shaughnessy Hall Notre Dame IN 46556- 0368 [email protected] Research Interests: History, Guinea, West Africa

Diaby Kassamba Oumou Koultoum CNWS et Universit de Ouagadougou s/c Mme. Oumou Nao BP 1192 SNTB Ouagadougou BURKINA FASO [email protected]

Dianne White Oyler Fayetteville State University 3581 Hastings Drive Fayetteville NC 28311 [email protected] Research Interests: NKo, Guinea

Lotte Pelckmans Univ. Leiden African Studies Center P.O. Box 9555 2300 RB Leiden THE NETHERLANDS [email protected] Research Interests: The dynamics of social hierarchical relations in transnational Fulbe society and transnational migration; social remittances, inequality, and translations of hierarchy and social status, Mali

Elena Perekhvalskaya St. Petersburg State University, Dept. of General Linguistics, Associated Professor Nevsky 82, #84 191025 St. Petersburg RUSSIA [email protected]

Donna Perry Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Gettysburg College Box 412 Gettysburg PA 17325 [email protected]

Rainer & Barbara Polak Pottensteinerstr. 8 95447 Bayreuth GERMANY [email protected] Robert Pringle 216 Wolfe Street Alexandria VA 22314 [email protected]

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David Rawson Spring Arbor College and Hillsdale College P.O. Box 125 Manitou Beach MI 49253 [email protected]

Daniel Reed Archives of Traditional Music Indiana University Morrison Hall 117 Bloomington IN 47405 [email protected]

Ralph Ricardo Atlanta Metropolitan College 7195 Weatherford Drive Powder Springs GA 30127 [email protected]

Charles Riley Yale University 470 Prospect St., Apt. 76 New Haven CT 06511- 2176 [email protected]

David Robinson History Department Michigan State University 301 Morrill Hall East Lansing MI 48824-1035 [email protected]

Caroline Robion-Brunner Univ. of Geneva Dept. d'anthropologie & d'ecologie 12, rue gustave- Revilliod 1227 Carouge 1211 Geneve 4 SWITZERLAND [email protected]

Seraphima Rombe-Shulman American University 4116 Chesapeake St., NW Washington DC 20016- 4608 [email protected]

Emma Ross Yale University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art 434 Elm Street New Haven CT 06511 [email protected]

Claudia Roth Univ. of Zurich Zahringerstr. 12 CH-8001 Zurich SWITZERLAND [email protected]

Molly Roth Opportunities Industrialization Centers International, OICI 240 West Tulpehocken St. Philadelphia PA 19144-3295 [email protected]

Victoria Rovine University of Florida Fine Arts Building C Box 115801 Gainesville FL 32601- 5801 [email protected]

Michael Rowlands Anthropology Department University College London Gower Street London WCIE 6BT UNITED KINGDOM [email protected]

Patrick Royer University of Illinois 5, allee des Trouveres 34170 Castlenau-le Lez FRANCE [email protected]

Giuseppina Russo 2, rue de Chatillon 75014 Paris FRANCE [email protected]

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Daouda Samake s/c Aissata Gouanl Helen Keller International B.P. E 1557 Bamako MALI [email protected]

Aby Sangare c/o Tatiana Nikitina 2000 Walnut Ave., Apt. I104 Fremont CA 94538-5310

Adama Sangar 17 BP 1334 Abidjan 17 IVORY COAST [email protected]

Lamine Sanneh Divinity School Yale University 409 Prospect Street New Haven CT 06510 [email protected]

Klena Sanogo Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako MALI

Maria da Conceicao das Neves Sao Silva Travessa da Boa-Hora, 41 - 1 1200-063 Lisboa PORTUGAL [email protected]

Habib Savane 01 BP 1762 Ouagadougou BURKINA FASO

Michael Schlottner Frobenius Institute-Goethe-University of Frankfurt Oberstrasse 2 D-56459 Willmenrod GERMANY [email protected]

Annette Schmidt Museum voor Volkenkunde P.O. Box 212 2300 AE Leiden The Netherlands [email protected]

Dorothea Schulz Indiana University Dept of Religious Studies Sycamore Hall Rm. 223 Bloomington IN 47405 [email protected]

Ibrahima Seck Lycee Blaise Diagne BP 4053 Dakar SENEGAL

Halassy Sidibe ISFRA BP 241 Bamako MALI

Laya Sidibe BP 617 Conakry GUINEA

Samuel Sidibe BP 159 Bamako GUINEA

Denanie Sillah Gambia National Museum PMB 151 Banjul THE GAMBIA

Famory Sissoko Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako MALI

Mamadou Sissoko Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako MALI

Ingse Skattum Univ. Oslo Klassik og romansk institutt Universitet I Oslo P.B. 1010 Blindern N-0315 Oslo NORWAY [email protected]

David Skinner Department of History Santa Clara University Santa Clara CA 95053 [email protected]

Ryan Skinner Columbia University, Dept. of Music, Ethnomusicology 741 E. Oltorf St., Apt. 101 Austin TX 78704 [email protected]

Kathleen Slobin North Dakota State University Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology Fargo ND 58105- 5075 [email protected]

William Smart AFLE Group of Companies S.A. P.O. Box 1223 Av. Unidade Africana Bissau GUINEA- BISSAU [email protected]

Karen Smid Dept. of Anthro., U. Michigan 550 E. University Avenue Ann Arbor MI 48104- 1092 [email protected]

Margit Smith Charlottenstr. 33 D-72070 Tubingen GERMANY

Africa Section, SOAS Library ATT: Barbara Turfan Russel Square London WC1H 0XG UNITED KINGDOM [email protected]

Tone Sommerfelt Dept. of Social Anthropology University of Oslo P.O. Box 1091 N-0317 Blindern, Oslo NORWAY [email protected]

Sheriff Sonko Central Statistics Department Central Bank Building Banjul THE GAMBIA

Patience Godwin Sonko P.O. Box 955 Banjul THE GAMBIA

Alioune Sow Center for African Studies, Univ. of Florida Dept. of Romance Lang & Lit, U. Florida 170 Dauer Hall P.O. Box 117405 Gainseville FL 32611 [email protected]

Moussa Sow Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako MALI

Stanford University Libraries Attn: Karen Fung Green Library SSRC 121 Stanford CA 94305-6004

Noemi Steuer Ob. Rheinweg 51 4058 Basel SWITZERLAND [email protected] Research Interests: Medical anthropology; AIDS patients resilience and their experiences of illness and anti-retroviral therapy, Mali

Julie Strand Wesleyan University 9 Brainard Ave. Middletown CT 06457 [email protected]

Cullen Strawn Indiana University 800 N. Union St. #206 Bloomington IN 47408 [email protected]

Abdou Sylla IFAN BP 206 Dakar SENEGAL

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Tal Tamari Research Fellow CNRS; Lecturer Universite Libre de Bruxelles MALD 9, rue Malher 75004 Paris FRANCE Research Interests: African linguistics

Mamadou Tangara c/o PADEF 2 Hill Street P.O. Box 549 Banjul THE GAMBIA [email protected]

Valerie Thiers-Thiam BMCC/CUNY 862 Union St., #1F Brooklyn NY 11215

Carol Thompson Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center High Museum of Art 1280 Peachtree St., NE Atlanta GA 30309-3502 [email protected]

Stephen R. Thompson 680 Manhattan Ave., Apt 1 Brooklyn NY 11222 [email protected]

Steven Thomson 705 S. 9th St. Laramie WY 82070 [email protected]

Temore Tioulenta Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako MALI

Simon Toulou Univ. of Geneva 40-42, Boulevard du Pont d'Arve 1211 Genve 4 SWITZERLAND [email protected]

Jeanne Toungara Howard University, History Department 2441 Sixth St. NW Washington DC 20059 [email protected]

Aboubacar Toure Departement d'Histoire Universite de Conakry BP 6350 Conakry GUINEA

Craig Tower Dept. of Anthropology Northwestern University 1810 Hinman Ave. Evanston IL 60208 [email protected]

Ismaila Samba Traore Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako MALI

Kamanan Jean Yves Traore Institut des Sciences Humaines BP 159 Bamako MALI

Karim Traore Comparative Literature University of Georgia 231 Joe Brown Hall Athens GA 30602 [email protected]

Koufecou Traore Association Culturelle N'Ko BP 7020 Sogoniko Bamako MALI

Amadou Seydou Traore Librarie Traore Rue Soundiata Keita, Port no.170 BP 3243 Bamako MALI

Bakary Traore s/o Eric Traore 03 BP 7098 Ouagadougou 03 BURKINA FASO

Konrad Tuchscherer Dept. of History St. John's University 8000 Utopia Parkway Jamaica NY 11439 [email protected]

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University Library/Africana Collection 1408 West Gregory Drive University of Illinois Urbana IL 61801

Walter van Beek Twijnstraat aan de werf 3 3511 ZE Utrecht The Netherlands [email protected]

Monica van Beusekom Trinity College 98 Candide Lane Storrs CT 06268 [email protected]

Han van Dijk Wageningen Agricultural University Dept. of Agrarian Law P.O. Box 8130 6700 EW Wageningen The Netherlands [email protected]

Ed van Hoven CNWS University of Leiden P.O. Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands

Martin van Vliet Vederwier 8 2318 AA Leiden The Netherlands [email protected]

Kristina Vandyke The Menil Collection 1604 Sul Ross Houston TX 77006 [email protected]

Susan Vogel Columbia U. Dept. Art History & Arch. 902 Schermerhorn Hall 1190 Amsterdam Avenue New York NY 10027 [email protected]

Valentin Vydrin Museum of Anthropology & Ethnography 3, University Embankmet St. Petersburg 199 034 RUSSIA [email protected]

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Richard Warms Anthropology Department Texas State University San Marcos TX 78666 [email protected]

Peter Weil Department of Anthropology University of Delaware Newark DE 19716- 2510 [email protected]

Bruce Whitehouse Box 1921, Anthro Dept Brown University Providence RI 02912 [email protected] Research Interests: Mande immigrants in Brazzaville, Congo; construction & transmission of a "stranger" identity across generations

Joe Williams Univ. of Maryland 1103 Mimosa Drive Tallahassee FL 32312 [email protected] Research Interests: Music of Francophone West Africa; Mande balafon (balanyi); Susu & Malinke; use of music and associated art forms to preserve & transmit cultural heritage (locally & globally); cultural tourism; African philosophy; African literature

Stephen Wooten University of Oregon International Studies Program 5206 Univ. of Oregon Eugene OR 97403 [email protected]

Donald Wright SUNY-Cortland 4355 Locust Ave Homer NY 13077 [email protected] Research Interests: Gambia; Atlantic World

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Africana Collection, Yale University 317 Sterling Memorial Library P.O. Box 208240 New Haven CT 06520-8240

Clemens Zobel Centre d'etudes africianes/EHESS 54, bd. Raspail 75006 Paris FRANCE [email protected]

Cheryl Zoll Massachussetts Institute of Technology 104 Northampton Rd. Amherst MA 01002 [email protected]