Mande StudiesPub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.2979/mande.18.1.06
I. Seck
{"title":"Du Jolibaa au Mississippi, le long voyage des gens du Komo","authors":"I. Seck","doi":"10.2979/mande.18.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/mande.18.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":322036,"journal":{"name":"Mande Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121714182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mande StudiesPub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.2979/mande.18.1.07
Jaak Jansen
{"title":"À la recherche d'autochtonie – Pourquoi les Maliens acceptent la Charte du Manding et la Charte de Kouroukanfougan","authors":"Jaak Jansen","doi":"10.2979/mande.18.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/mande.18.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Résumé:</p><p>Bien qu'il s'agisse littéralement de bricolages récents, d'« inventions of tradition », la Charte du Manding et la Charte de Kouroukanfougan sont très populaires chez les Maliens qui semblent les accepter comme des vérités historiques. La présente analyse tente d'expliquer le prestige de ces chartes par des facteurs <i>contextuels</i>. Nous avons exploré les trois dimensions sociologiques suivantes : <list list-type=\"order\"><list-item><label>1)</label><p>les récentes expériences positives vécues par la population malienne avec les chasseurs en tant que « proto-démocrates » et protecteurs d'une société méritocratique, combinées à ses expériences négatives vécues avec les idéologies nationales ou nationalistes qui célébraient les héros sous les régimes non démocratiques d'avant 99.</p></list-item><list-item><label>2)</label><p>la nouvelle mentalité selon laquelle les gens veulent être « modernes » et « connectés » dans un contexte de « non-gouvernementabilité ».</p></list-item><list-item><label>3)</label><p>la recherche d'une conceptualisation du passé avec un regard vague, « déshistoricisé » et « déhistorisant » sur le passé, remplaçant une histoire orale d'une fondation détaillée et comprenant de multiples variantes par une constitution sans variations, mais faisant appel à un patrimoine activement approprié par les parties prenantes.</p></list-item></list> Ensemble, ces trois dimensions justifient que ces chartes soient considérées comme la manifestation d'une tendance politique à l'autochtonie, se présentant sous forme de patrimoine immatériel pour des <i>vrais mandingues modernes</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":322036,"journal":{"name":"Mande Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121885063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mande StudiesPub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.2979/mande.18.1.08
Hassoum Ceesay
{"title":"Chiefs and the Management of Urbanization in Colonial Bathurst, Gambia 1939–1960","authors":"Hassoum Ceesay","doi":"10.2979/mande.18.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/mande.18.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"The colonial administration in British Gambia was concerned with the growth of the major urban centre of Bathurst, now Banjul, and with managing the negative impact of urbanization such as overcrowding, unemployment, homelessness and food security. This is especially clear in the government policy of reclamation of a large portion of Bathurst in the early 1930s to create room for the burgeoning population. The initial lack of restriction on new arrivals into the town from the Protectorate was motivated by the need for cheap labour by Bathurst-based European firms, and exemplifies the tolerance of the British colonial administration of immigration into the colony. This study seeks to assess the impact of urbanization in Bathurst during war and its immediate aftermath (1939 to 1960) and especially how colonial officials used chiefs in an effort to remedy some of the negative effects of the influx of people into Bathurst. The study ends by proposing that urbanization and the challenges it posed in Bathurst, had by the late 1950s, become so pronounced that it became a political weapon which the People's Progressive Party (PPP) used to wrest power from the colonial rulers (Editorial Committee, The Story of the PPP, 1992:7). Another conclusion is that by their active involvement in remedying the negative impact of urbanization, chiefs were able to strengthen their roles in colonial society and gain more weight in the pre-independence political negotiations. The relevance of this study for today's Gambia lies in the fact that the country is grappling with various measures to foster food security amidst a burgeoning urban and peri-urban population engaged in little or no agriculture, a trend which dates to the period under study.","PeriodicalId":322036,"journal":{"name":"Mande Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126459796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mande StudiesPub Date : 1907-04-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvx8b7f4.24
C. Ammann, Andrea Kaufmann, B. Hoffman, Bala Saho, Kassim Koné, Odile Goerg
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"C. Ammann, Andrea Kaufmann, B. Hoffman, Bala Saho, Kassim Koné, Odile Goerg","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvx8b7f4.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx8b7f4.24","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The ways in which kañeleng women localize and organize their rituals produce a sense of cultural empowerment by giving them a chance to reconstruct their identities and lives. The rites confirm not only the pragmatic utility of the rituals in transforming the aspirant from a childless woman to a fertile woman but also elevate the status of the specific landscape on which 'the rite of passage' is conducted to attain sacred status or confirm the sacrality of the place. This study examines how kañeleng women appropriate, domesticate, and own particular spaces through rituals in order to cope with the challenges of childlessness.","PeriodicalId":322036,"journal":{"name":"Mande Studies","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1907-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115260304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mande StudiesPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.2979/MANDE.22.1.01
D. Jorio
{"title":"Introduction by the Editor-in-Chief - Introduction par la rédactrice en chef","authors":"D. Jorio","doi":"10.2979/MANDE.22.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/MANDE.22.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":322036,"journal":{"name":"Mande Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127835968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}