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Annual MANSA Meeting Ferdinand De Jong, University of Amsterdam, "Playing with Politicians: Secrecy and Politics in The 14th annual meeting of the Mande Studies Casamance (Senegal)" IX-D40 Association will be held during the ASA meeting in Rosa De Jorio, University of North Florida, "Mande Philadelphia We are scheduled for Saturday, November Humanism, Cultural Brokerage, and Religious 13, 7:00-9:00 p.m. In the preliminary program the Grace: Rethinking the Gendered Nature of Power in meeting room has not yet been assigned, but it will be " VII-K2 found in the final program at ASA. Edda Fields, University of Pennsylvania, "Historical Linguistic Evidence, An Ignored' Authentic' African Voice?: The Disentangling of the Veteran MANSA Members Migration Myth among Baga, Nalu, and Serve as ASA Panels Chairs Landuma-Speakers in Guinea's Rio Nunez Region" I-A20 For the second straight year a MANSA member will be Maria Grosz-Ngate, University of Florida, Discussant, National P-anels Chair for the annual meeting of the "Redefining Musoya and Musotonw: Women's Association. Tom Hale of Pennsylvania (Re)Appropriation of New Political and Cultural State University has been serving in that capacity for Spaces in the Mande World" VII-K2 the 42nd annual meeting to be held at Philadelphia, Thomas Hale, Pennsylvania State University, 11-14 November, 1999. The National Panels Chair for "Teaching About Africa Via Interactive Video" the 43rd annual meeting to be held at Nashville is "Baobab Tree" presentation. Patrick McNaughton of Indiana University. Joseph Hellweg, University of Virginia, "Initiation, Performance, and Liminal Masculinity in the Mande Hunters' Association of Cote d'Ivoire, West MANSA Participants at the 42nd Annual Africa" IV-MI Meeting of the African Studies Association Christian Hoejbjerg, University of Copenhagen, (With location codes of the ASA program) "Staging Reality: The Current Significance of Masks and Masking Among the Lorna (Guinea and Ralph Austen, University of Chicago, Roundtable Liberia)" "Baobab Tree" presentation. "Amadou Hampate Ba: A Retrospective" VII-N6 Barbara Hoffman, Cleveland State University, "Bald, Thomas Bassett, University of Illinois, Urbana Beheaded, and Braided: Women's Roles in the Champaign, "Game-Depletion, Hunter Aesthetics of Men's Initiation among the Maasai of Associations and Wildlife Conservation in Northern Kenya" IV-MI Cote.d'Ivoire" V-HI Jan Jansen, CNWS Leiden University, '''L'etat de Stephen Belcher, "When Women were Kings: Myths of Kangaba': Its Rise and Fall, c. 1870-1888" VI-AS Power-Shifts" IV-N I James Jones, Westchester University, "The Railroad Catherine Bogosian, University of Pennsylvania, Campaign Against Samori Toure" VI-AS "Memories of Forced Labor: The Deuxieme Portion Yacouba Konate, University of Abidjan-Cocody, "Cote in the , 1926-1946" VI-A6 d'Ivoire: Who's Afraid of the Dozo?" V-HI

DAvIDC. CONRAD,President, State University of New York-Oswego BARBARAE. FRANK,Vice President, State University of New York-Stony Brook STEPHENWOOTEN,Secretary-Treasurer, University of Oregon Advisory Board Alpha Bah, College of Charleston LANSINEKABA,University of Illinois-Chicago ARIA)'iEDELuz. Labomtoire d'Anthropologie Sociologique Kassirn Kone, State University of New York-Cortland MA.'WnJ DlAwARA.Universitat Bayreuth PETERMARK.W~AN UNIVERSfJY . Lucy Duran, SOAS, University of London TEREBATOOOlA, Mirnstry of Culture and Tounsrn, Bamako Mande Studies Manuscript submissions should be typewritten First Issue of the Journal of the Mande or computer-printed in double-spacing, and should be Studies Association accompanied, if possible, with an electronic version of the text on a di keue (IBMJMS-DOS; Mac texts should CONTENTS be sent by email). Authors must furnish any maps or Special Section: Mobilitv in the Mande World illustrati in bard copy suitable for reproduction, and Guest Editors: Mirjam De Bruijn and Han Van Dijk are respo ible for obtaining any necessary permissions. Colleagues from Africa without access to Introduction: "Changing Frontiers" computers should send a typewritten manuscript, Mirjam De Bruijn and Han Van Dijk keeping a ropy for their 0\\ 0 use. Submi ions may be made electronically to "Maude and Fulbe Interaction and Identity in either Ariane Deluz [email protected]) or to Northwestern Sierra: Leone, Late Eighteenth through Stephen Belcher([email protected]); Early Twentieth Centuries" manuscript submissions should be sent to Stephen Allen M. Howard Belcher (R.D. 1 Box 1000, Petersburg PA, 16669 USA). In the case of electronic submi sioos, the text "Fulbe Mobility: Migration and Travel into Mande" should be sent as an attachment and not in the body of Mirjam De Bruijn and Hap Van Dijk the message. The preferred format, if not WordPerfect or Microsoft Word, is as a 'rich text file' (suffix: .rtf). "Aspects of Interethnic Relations in Contemporary Agricultural Migration and Settlement in Southern La revue Etudes Maude invite nos collegues a presenter Mali" des contributions portant sur tous les aspects du monde Dolores Koenig, Tieman Diarra, and Moussa Sow mande et des peuples et des cultures qui Ie composent. Les articles proposes seront evalues anonymement avant "Identity, Rice, and Oral Traditions: Reflections from d'etre retenus. La revue accepte et publie des articles en Fieldwork Among Nalu, Baga Fore and Baga Pukur anglais ou en francais. Speakers" Les manuscrits soumis doivent etre saisis ou Edda L. Fields imprimes sur ordinateur en double interligne, et devraient s'accompagner si possible de la version General Articles electronique du texte sur disquette (format "Ethnic Pluralism and Homogeneity in the Western IBMlMS-Dos). Les textes composes sur Macintosh Sudan: Saalum, Segu, Wasulu" doivent nous parvenir commes fichiers attaches a un Martin A. Klein emaiJ. Les auteurs sont pries de fournir leurs cartes et illustrations ur papier, d'une qualite permettant la "Les Mandingues de I'ancien Kaabu et Ie savoir reproduction. II est de la responsabilite des auteurs musulman" d obtenir toute permission necessaire pour la Eduardo Costa Dias reproduction. Nos collegues en Afrique d'ayant pas acces a "Language Contacts: The Case of Manding and un ordinateur sont pries d'envoyer un manuscrit Jola-Fogny" dactylographic, et de conserver un deuxieme exemplaire Valentin Vydrine pour leur propre usage. Les articles peuvent etre soumis par voie "Politique de Peuplement et Construction de l'identite electronique a Ariane Deluz des Mikhifore de Boke" ([email protected]) ou a Stephen Belcher Mohamed Saidou N'Daou ([email protected]); les manuscrits devraient etre addresses a Stephen Belcher (RD. I, Box SUBMITTING ARTICLES TO MAN DE STUDIES . 1000, Petersburg PA, 16669 -- USA). Dans le cas des Mande Studies welcomes articles on all aspects of the articles envoyes par email, Ie texte ne doit pas etre Mande world and the peoples and cultures that compose envoye dans Ie message mais comme fichier attache au it. Submissions will be peer-reviewed before mail. Le format prefere, autre que Microsoft Word, est acceptance. The journal will accept and publish Ie "Rich Text File" (suffixe .rtf). manuscripts in English or French.

2 SUBSCRIBI G TO MANDE STUDIES Institute for Afro-American Studies from fall 1999 to Volume I of Mande Studies is available from the spring lOOt. He's working on his dissertation, African Studies Program, 205 Ingraham Hall, 1155 "Dozoya: Hunting Ethics in Ivorian Civil Society." Observatory Drive University of Wisconsin - Madison, JAN JANSEN has been doing research in Mali in the 53706; Tel: 6ffi-262-A93: Fa~ 6ffi-265-5851; e-mail: Sobara region among other places, and will return to [email protected] The Netherlands 19 November. MARIE-NA THALlE LEBLANC was invi ted to Lisbon (ISCT£) in May, and made two presentations there, Samori in Italy "Youth,Islam and Changing Identities in Bouakeand Cote d'Ivoire" (6/5/99), and "The Production of Islamic A special number OIl Samori Toure has been published Identities through Knowledge Claims in Bouake, in the journal Afriche. quademi di introduzione aile Cote d'Ivoire" (7/5/f)9). . realtaafriame. Soeieta Missioni Africane, Trimestrale, HEATHER MAXWELL has a Fulbright-Hayes Luglio-Senembre, 1999. There is an Afriche web site: fellowship to do her dissertation research in Bamako. and http: WW\\ it.i noprofit/sma/index/afriche/ Paris on Wasulu.singers and their community. afriche.hun: e-mail [email protected] DA VID RAWSON finished his three-year tour as United States Ambassador to Mali in July and is now teaching African History at Hillsdale College in ' Up-Date on MA.1\iSA Members" Michigan. . " Adi ities DANIEL REED has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University or LAt..R" AE ;-[SO .. i ing an intern hip in Mali North Carolina at Greensboro, that was vacated by Eric with Helen Keller International on a Child Survival Charry last year when he moved to Wesleyan Project in the Koulikoro region. This will fulfill the University. final requirement for her MPH in International Health DAVID SKINNER reports that he has a few copies of and Development at Tulane University. Harrell-Bond, Howard & Skinner, Community LlAM BUCKLEY has received funding from the Leadership in , 1801·1976 to sell. This book Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research is out of print, and probably only available from him. If to conduct a year's research into the current status of interested, e-rnail Davidat:[email protected]. colonial documentary media in The Gambia. This TEREBA. TOGOLA sends word that the 8th Congress project will focus on a collection of 2000 photographs of the West African Archaeological Association (8eme produced by ~oseph Bahoum, a Gambian civil-servant, Colloquede I'Association Ouest A fricai ne between 1947 and 1956. d'Archeologie) will be held in Djenne, Mali on MARK DA VIDHEISE,R was in the Gambia for two November 1-6, 1999. The congress theme will be months during the summer, thanks in part to a David "Archaeology and the West African Heritage Patrimony .Niddrie.Travel Award from the Center for African at the Turn of the 21st Century" (Archeologie et Studies at the University of Florida, During that Patrimoine en Afrique de l'Ouest it l'Oree du time he prepared for his dissertation research, gathering XXIe Siecle). Those wishing to participate should preliminary data in the form of ethnographic interviews. contact the General Secretary of the Association, Dr. MAMADOU DIA WARA sends notice of a conference Tereba Togola, B.P. 159, Bamako, Mali, Tel: to be .held in Bamako at his research center Point Sud, 223·~1-67-86. Center for Research on Local Knowledge. The VALENTIN VYDRINE has moved to Mainz, Germany conference theme isL,'Inter!ace"entre les savoirs paysalls for his Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and will et le "savoir universel" and the dates are February remain there until September, 2000. 1~-18, 2000. For more information contact Mamadou STEPHEN WOOTEN has accepted a position in the at: [email protected] Department of Anthroplogy a.tthe University or Oregon ALMA GOTTLIEB will be on research leave (and out" in Eugene. During the summer he accompanied his wife of electronic communication) for the rest of 1999, as Joanna to Uganda where she launched a long-term he tries to to complete two books. project that she is calling the "Kibale Primate Feeding JOSEPH HELLWEG has returned from his research in Project" (KPFP). At the same time, Stephen did a pilot COte d'Ivoire to the University of Virginia where he study of the local socio-economic impact of the research "ill be a pre-doctoraI fellow at the Carter Woodson station.

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I Book. Article, and Dissertation Releases French francs; France: 28 French francs; other: 36 French francs. To order send a check in French francs BOOKS: payable to "Linguistique Africaine," drawn on a French Jean-Loup Amselle. 1999. Logiques metisses: bank or send an international money order converted in Anthropologie de l'identite en Afrique et ailleurs French francs, to the following address: Les Documents (2nd edition). Paris: Editions Payot. de Linguistique Africaine, sIc Professcur Suzy Platiel, Up-dared with "Preface a la deuxieme edition: Heurs et 12, rue Antoine Chantin, Paris 75014. malheurs du metissage." Ce livre n'est pas un adieu a I'anthropologie, mais tout au contraire une proposition Seydou Camara and Jan Jansen (cds.). 1999, La geste de de renversement de perspective. Fruit d'une quinzaine 'ankoman: Texts sur lafondation de Narena d 'annees de travail de terrain et de reflexion theorique sur (Mali), Leiden: Research School of Asian, African les chefferies peul, bambara et malinke du sud-ouest du and Amerindian Studies (C-;WS). Mali et du nord-est de la Guinee, cet ouvrage resulte de Cet ouvrage, qui e t un premier essai de collaboration I'impossibilite dans laquelle I'auteur s'est trouve de scientifique sur le ujet, montre qu'il exi te encore en com prendre Ie terrain qu'il avait choisi a l'aide Afrique de grands cycles narratifs inconnus et qu'il y a d'instruments theoriques communement utilises par encore beaucoup de travail a faire en la matiere. I' anthropologie. II est I'aboutissement d'un projet concu et realise Cette longue enqete de terrain et cette analyse par deux chercheurs qui ont bien voulu contribuer a une critique l'on conduit a remettre en cause I'essentiel de ce meilleure connaissance de I'histoire du Manden et du qui constitue la "raison ethnologique". Autrement dit, la fonctionnement de la societe mandingue OU la geste un demarche discontinuiste qui consiste a extraire, purifier genre litteraire fort prise. Soucieux de la sauvegarde des et classer afin de degager des types, que ce soit dans le temoignages oraux, les auteurs ont entrepris de livrer au domaine politique, econornique, religieux, ethnique ou public ce que la tradition a retenu et que les notables et culture!. bardes croient etre la verite historique sur la fondation de Cette perspective est I'un des fondements de la Narena, localite maninka (rnalinke) du sud-ouest du domination europeenne su~ Ie reste de la planete. Or a Mali. CNWS Publications vol. 76, ISBN: cette "raison ethnologique" on peut opposer une logique 90- 5789-023- 2. metisse, c'est-a-dire une approche continuiste qui, a l'inverse, mettrait I'accent sur I'indistinction ou le David P. Gamble and P.E.H. Hair (eds.). 1999. The syncretisme originaire. Discovery of River Gambra, J 623 by Richard Jobson, London: Hakluyt Society, Stephen Belcher. 1999. Epic Traditions of Africa. - In 1623 Richard Jobson published an account of a Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University 1620-1621 English voyage up River Gambia, during Press. which a party, led by himself, penetrated to a point This book crosses boundaries of language distance, and some 460 miles up-river. The purpose of the voyage time to gather material from diverse African oral was to make contact with the gold trade of the West sources. The author explores the rich past and poetic African interior, but in this there was little success. force of African epics and places them in historical and However, Jobson's account of the river, its commerce, social, as well as artistic contexts. Colorful narratives narural history, peoples, religions and polities, was the from Central and West African traditions are illuminated earliest to appear in print, in this fullness of detail, in along with texts that are more widely available to any language. It was also the earliest detailed account of Western readers, such as the Mande epic of Sunjata, and any part of Black Africa, by an Englishman. Jobson's the Bamana epic of Segou. account, almost entirely original, has special interest in ISBN 0~253-33501-9 (cl) ISBN 0-253-21281-2 (pb) its author's observations on the African scene, Tel. orders 800-842-6796, fax orders 812-855-7931, particularly those on the African peoples and individuals orders bye-mail [email protected] encountered. Jobson discusses such topics as local Cassian Braconnier, 1999. Dictionnaire du dioula agriculture and trade, the role of Islam, political culture, d'Odienne. Disponible dans la collection Les and the position of women. Despite the limits of his Documents de Linguistique AfricCf-ine,publiee par la experience, his observations are seemingly accurate and revue Linguistique Africaine. Tome 1: pp. 468, generally perceptive, as well as being (perhaps Tome 2: pp.492. unexpectedly) often tolerant and even sympathetic. ISBN 2-910809-04-8. Europe (France not included): 22 pp. 368, hardback, ISBN 090418064 6 £45.00.

4 John O. Hunwick (ed. & translator). 1999. The following explanation by Vydrine reveals the and the Song hay Empire: AI-Sa 'di 's Ta'rikh. thoroughness of his work: "The idea of the present . Al-Sudan Down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Dictionary is to reflect in the most complete way the Documents. Leiden: E.J. Brill. richness of the vocabularv of Maninka and Bamana. For Al-Sa'di's Ta'rikhal-sudan is a major source for the this sake, all words and morphemes have been taken history of Timbuktu and the Songhay empire. This first into account which can be considered as facts of these English translation includes abundant annotation, and is languages, including outmoded, archaic, dialectical, followed by English translations of several other special, slang vocabulary, etc. There are also included, contemporary texts. The principal text translated in this with necessary marking, neologisms whose acceptance volume is the Ta'rikh.al-sudan of the in the current Maninka or Bamana languages is not yet seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar Abd al-Rahman an established fact, provided that they are found i'n such al-Sa'di. Thirty chapters are included, dealing with the sources as publications by Sulemana Kante and, toa history of lesser degree, by IRLA in Guinea, by DNFLA or Timbuktu and Jenne, their scholars, and the political "Benbakandungew" in Mali, etc .. This means that these history of the Songhay empire from the reign of Sunni neologisms have some chances to grow enracinated in Ali (1464-1492) through the Moroccan conquest of the languages." 'Songhay in 1591 and down to the year 1613 when the To purchase the dictionary; Contact Valentin Vydrine Pashalik of Timbuktu became an autonomous ruling at: vydrine@hotmaiLcom;orat the address of Vydrine's institution in the Middle. Iiger region. The year 1613 editor: [email protected]. The price is $25 for also marked the effective end of Songhay resistance. MANSA members and citizens of African countries. The other contemporary documents included are a new The mailing cost is $3 for surface mail, §4 for air English translation of Leo Africanus's description of mail. Non-MANSA members $38 (surface) $39 (air). West Africa. some letters relating to Sa'dian diplomacy and conquests in the Sahara and Sahel, al-Ifrani's ARTICLES: account of the Sa'dian conquest of Songhay, and an Tom Bassett. 1998. "Ifluenze africane sulla cartografia account of this expedition by an anonymous Spaniard. europia dell 'Africa nei secoli XIX e XX" ("African Includes an introductory interpretive essay and 6 influences on European mapping of Africa in the appendices, pp. lxv, 412. Cased, with dust-jacket. ISBN 19th and early 20th centuries") in E.Casti & A. 9004 112073. Price: $141. Contact Brill Academic Turco (eds.), Culture dell'alterita: it territorio Publishers, P.O. Box 9000, 2300 PA Leiden, Holland; africano e le sue rappresentasioni. Ber-gamo: Edizioni Fax: +31 (71) 531-7532; e-mail: [email protected] Unicopli. Tom Bassett. 1998. "Indigenous Mapmaking in Valentin Vydrine. 1999. Manding-English Dictionary Intertropical Africa" in D. Woodward and M. Lewis (Maninka, Bamana). Volume 1 A, B, D-DAD (eds), The History of Cartography, Vol 2, Bk 3: supplemented by some entries from subsequent Cartography in the Traditional African, American, volumes: St. Petersburg: Dimitry Bulanin Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies. Chicago: Publishing House. University of Chicago Press. Editor's note: This publication was announced in an Tom Bassett & Koli Bi Zueli, 1999. "Fulbe earlier issue of MANSA Newsletter, but without pastoralism and environmental change in northern actually seeing the book it was not possible to do Cote d'Ivoire" in Mirjam de Bruijn and Han van Dijk justice to this extraordinary work of scholarship. It (eds.), Pastoralism under Pressure? Fulbe societies . should be noted that the "supplementary entries" are confronting change ill West-Africa. Amsterdam: E.J . substantial, running from E to Z, pp. 243-315, so this Brill. ' volume contains a great deal more than A-DAD. For Tim Geysbeek. 1999. "The Impeachments and Trials of example, J thruO runs (tom p. 253 to 288. Those of President James S. Payne and Secretary J.K. us conditioned to using H.. Bazin, C. Bailleul, and M. Anderson: The Documentary Evidence (Part I)." Delafosse's Bamana-French dictionaries, have not Liberian Studies Journal 24 (1). heretofore experienced what a Bamana/Maninka Tim Geysbeek and Svend Holsoe. 1998. "A Short dictionary can be. Not only does Vydrine take us direct .History of Samori." Liberian Studies Journal 23 (2). from Bamana and Maninka to English and offer Jan Jansen. 1998. "The 1997 Kamabolon Ceremony in. extraordinarily detailed definitions,he provides all Kangaba (Mali)."1nternationaLJournal of African headwords of entries with an N'ko transcription. Historical Studies 31 (2).

5 Frederick Lamp. 1997. "Ternne (Sierra Leone)." problem-solving with that done by marabouts in the Encyclopediaof Yemacular Architecture of the Gambia World. Paul Oliver (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Hauke Dorscb, Kampstr. 42, 20357 Hamburg University Press. GERMANY, Tel.: 49-40-393644 Email: Frederick Lamp. 1998. "African Aesthetics." Hauke Dorschts public. uni-ham burg.de Affiliati on: IlllemationalEllCyclopediaofDance. S. J. Cohen Hamburg University/Institut fur Ethnologic. (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. Interests: The role of griots, esp. Gambian Mandinka Frederick Lamp. 1999. "First Word: Africa Centered" jalolu, for migrants' identity construction and (editorial), African Arts XXXII (1). maintenance. Peter Mark. 1999. "The evolution of 'Portuguese' . Craig Enstad, 1215 8th St., SE, Apt. D, Minneapolis, identity: Luso-Africans on the Upper Guinea Coast MN 55414. Affiliation: University of Minnesota, from the 16th to the early 19th century." Journal of Twin Cities. Interests: Senegal. African History, 40 (2). Andrew Habermacher, 2771 Price Road, Crofton, MD Mohamed Saidou N'Daou. 1999. "Sangalan Oral 21114, Tel.: 301-858-0152, Fa\.: 301-808-0418, Traditions as Philosophy and Ideologies." History ill Email: [email protected]. web site: WWW: Africa 26( 1999). http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/-ahabermr. Affiliation: Claudia Roth. 1998. "Kulturschock, Macht und Prince George's Community College. Interests: Erkenntnis. Zur Auseinandersetzung mit Grenzen in Anthropology, Mandinka, Southern Senegal. der ethnologischen Forschungssituation." in Kdrper Gabrielle Hermann-Camara, 18 Dartmouth Street, und Identiuuen. Ethnologischge Ansatze :1Ir Somerville, MA 02145, Tel.: 617-776-3109; Fax: Konstruktion von Geschlechi. Hrsg, Susanne 617-776-3109, Email: [email protected]. Schreier. Bamburg: Lit. Affiliation: Brandeis University. Interests: The Claudie Roth. 1998 "Seit der Kindheit un Geschaft; Ich economics of jeJiya; social implications of it empfinde bei keiner Arbeit Scbam. in spreading to international audiences.

Afrika-Kalendar 1999. Hrsg. R. Apsel, I, Brandes. Stacy Holden, III Summer Street, Somerville, MA FrankfurtlM.: Brandes & Apse\. 02143, Tel.: 617-666-8997, Fax: 617-353-4975. Susi Lindig and Claudie Roth. Travail dans IDte Email: [email protected]. Affiliation: History decharge: lesfemmes de Lasavonnerie de Department, Boston University. Interests: African Bobo-Dioulassol Arbeit AbJaJl: die Seifenfrauen in urban proces ; monuments; African responses to Bobo-Dioulasso. Katalog Zll Fotoaus II g. colonial policy of hi toric preservation in Bezugsquelle: Susi Lindig, ROn~ and. tali. CH-8005 Zurich. Mariam Keita, c Moussa Ka Enda Vipassana B.P. 3370, Dakar. SE;.,cGAL, Fax number: DISSERT ATION: -21-8-222-695, E-mail address: Daniel Reed. 1999. "Ge Performaoce: , , Music [email protected]: Centre de recherche and Meaning Among the Dan of COte d"Ivoire." initiatique. Interests: Application of traditional Department of Folklore & Etbnomusicology, African concepts to modern communication Indiana University. strategies; research on intercultural language-media to teach the essence of initiation; excision as a tool of mastery and its denial by modern man and his New & Renewed ~tA, 'SA institutions. Members & Address Changes Scott Lacy, 935B Camino Pescadero, Isla Vista, CA 93117. Tel.: 805-961-4585, Email: NEW MEMBERS [email protected]. Affiliation: UC Santa Mark Davidheiser, 23 Dogwood Place, Sewanee, TN Barbara, Anthropology. Interests: Mali; local 37375, Tel.: 352-376-2633, Email: knowledge, science and agriculture. [email protected]. Affiliation: University of Valerie Thiers, 125 Berkeley Place, Brooklyn, NY Florida, Center for African Studies, Grinter 427, 11217, Tel.: 718-230-9563, Email: Gainesville, FL 32612. Interests: Anthropology, [email protected]. Affiliation: New York African Islamic societies, conflict analysis and University. Interests: The griot in West African management. Developing a research project literature and cinema; West African music. comparing American and Western mediation and

6 Barbea Williams. P.D. Bm '2775, Tucson, AZ 85702 anthropology among the Mande and other West Tel.: 520-6'28- s, Email: African cultures, Maninka and Diakhanke languages, daneebmwjaazstarnet.com. Affiliation: Barbea political . Williams Performing Company. Interests: African Eric Silla, 2342 Dale Drive, Falls Church, VA 22043 centered an and culture. Tel.: 703-641-8869, Email: [email protected] Margit Smith, Charlottenstr 23, 0-72070 Tubingen, lJPDA TES & ADDRESS CHANGES GERMANY, Tel.: 707161519. Interests: The Mande Tavy Aherne, 1894 Hawksbill Road, Massanutten, VA kora 22840. Affiliation: James Madison University. Valentin Vydrine (temporary address change) lnstitut Email: [email protected] fur Ethnologie und Afrika-Studien, Afrikanische Laura Arntson, 20611 Bothell-Everett Hwy, PMB 368, Philologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet, Bothell, WA 98021. Email: 0-55099 Mainz, Germany. Residence: [email protected]. Temporary mailing Studentenwohnunganlage Hechtsheim, address October-December 1999: sIc Helen Keller Generaloberst-Beck-Str. 8,55129 Mainz International, BP. E 1557, Bamako, MALI Stephen Wooten, Department of Anthropology, Liam Buckley, 1802 Ross Place SE, Albuquerque, M University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1218 87108 Tel.: 541-346-5299, Fax: 541-346-0668, Email: Amadou Tamba Doumbia, Departement de linguistique [email protected] et de litterature orale, ISH, BP 159, Bamako, MALI Joseph Hellweg, 107 Carrsbrook Drive, Charlottesville, E-MAIL CHANGES VA 22901, Tel: (804) 975-6107, Email: Tavy Aherne: [email protected] [email protected]. Affiliation: Carter Woodson Laura Arntson: [email protected] Institute, 108 Minor Hall, University of Virginia, Cornelia Giesing: [email protected] Charlottesville, VA 22903, Office tel: (804) Joseph Hellweg: jrhSn@virginiaedu 924-8890 Marie Miran: [email protected] Stacy Holden (temporary address, Fulbright academic Claudia Roth: [email protected] year 1999-2000): Cultural Affairs Officer USIS, Berend Timmer: BerendTimmer@minbzk:.nl Rabat, American Embassy-Morocco, Department of Valentin Vydrine: [email protected] State, Washington DC, 20521-9400 Stephen Wooten: [email protected] John Hutchinson, African Studies Center/Boston University, 270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215 RENEWED MEMBERS Tel.: 617-353-7305, Fax: 617-353-4975, Email: Alice Bellagamba [email protected]. Interests: Bamanankan, Julakan, George Brooks (sponsor) Maninkakan. Liarn Buckley Jan Jansen, Berkelstraat 65, 3522 EL Utrecht, David Conrad (sponsor) NETHERLANDS. Affiliation: Leiden University Carla de Bruin Adria LaViolette, University of Virginia, Department of Bernard De Grunne (sponsor) Anthropology, P.O. Box 400120, Charlottesville, Ariane Deluz (sponsor) V A 22904-4120 Alexandre Enkerli Carlos Lopes, 37 Ross Road, P.O. Chisipite, Harare, Andrew Habermacher ZIMBABWE, Tel.: 2634-885024, Fax: 2634- Christopher Hayden (sponsor) 883677, Email: [email protected]. Interests: John Hutchinson Guinea Bissau, Casamance region and particularly P.J. Imperato (sponsor) the Mande cui tures associated with the Kaabu Jacqueli ne Janse expansion. Doug Johnston Marie Miran, History Department, Colby College Dolores Koenig (sponsor) 5320 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 04901-5320 Carlos Lopes Tel: 207-8723279, Fax: 207-872 32 63. Email: Pekka Masonen [email protected] Charles Riley Chuck Riley, 418 Jersey Street, Apt.' 3, Buffalo, NY Claudia Roth 14213, Tel.: 716-884-0712, Email: Eric Silla mbagnickei botmail.com. Interests: Medical Kathleen Siobin

7 Margi t Smi th Joining MANSA and Renewing Membership Tal Taman Berend Timmer Regular and institutional membership $10, students $5, Stephen Wooten sponsoring membership $~5. Make check out to MANSA and (if you are joining) send your institutional affiliation and a brief description of your research interests to: Stephen Wooten, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1~18. Members (other than sponsored African colleagues) will find the date on which their present membership expires recorded on their address labels. The Secretary-Treasurer will forward your up-dated add ress and research information to the President for publication in the newsletter.

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