Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, SenegalEdinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 2007 - 228 من الصفحات How do those on the margins of modernity face the challenges of globalization? This book demonstrates that secrecy is one of the means by which a society on the fringe of modernity produces itself as locality. Focusing on initiation rituals, masked performances and modern art, this study shows that rituals and performances long deemed obsolete, serve the insertion of their performers in the world at their own terms.The Jola and Mandinko people of the Casamance region in Senegal have always used their rituals and performances to incorporate the impact of Islam, colonialism, capitalism, and contemporary politics. Their performances of secrecy have accommodated these modern powers and continue to do so today. The performers incorporate the modern and redefine modernity through secretive practices. Their traditions are not modern inventions, but traditional ways of dealing with modernity.This book will interest anthropologists, historians, political scientists and all those studying how globalisation affects peripheral societies. It shows that secrecy, performed as a weapon of the weak, empowers their performers. Secrecy serves to mark boundaries and define the local in the global.Ferdinand de Jong is Lecturer in Anthropology, School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia. |
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Power of Secrecy | 3 |
Jola Initiations Gendered Localities | 31 |
Out of Diaspora into the Forest | 54 |
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administration African argued audience Baboucar Badji Bainunk Balanta Bignona bush Casamançais Casamance region Casamance River Catholic celebration Chapter circumcision colonial considered context conversion to Islam cultural Dakar dance demonstrate Diamoral Diatock discourse Doutremépuich ethnic groups ethnography Father female initiation Ferdinand de Jong fieldwork Fulani Gambia garur global guardians identity increasingly initiation camp initiation ceremony initiation ritual Islam Jola initiation Jola society Jola villages Kafanta Kankurang masquerade Kankurang performances Klei Kumpo Kumpo performance kuyandingo Linares male initiation mandinkisation Mandinko initiation Marsassoum mask's masked performance MFDC migrants minor initiation modernity Mouride Muslim Niaganan non-initiates novices Omar Camara organised palm wine participation performance of secrecy political politicians population postcolonial practices of secrecy production rice rite of passage ritual Robert Sagna sacred forest seclusion secret society Sédhiou Senegal Senegalese social Solo sub-wards sunno tendance Thionck Essyl Tijaniyya tourists town tradition transformations urban wards Wolof women young Ziguinchor