ISBN:
9780748670642
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 228 p.)
,
Ill., maps, ports.
Series Statement:
International African library 36
DDC:
306.09663
Keywords:
Diola
;
Initiation
;
Kultmaske
;
Geheimkult
;
Secrecy
;
Rites and ceremonies
;
Group identity
;
Ethnology
;
Globalization
;
Casamance
;
Casamance (Senegal) Social life and customs
;
Casamance (Senegal) Religious life and customs
Abstract:
How do those on the margins of modernity face the challenges of globalisation? This title demonstrates that secrecy is one of the means by which a society on the fringe of modernity produces itself as locality.
Note:
Published for the International African Institute, London
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633197.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633197.001.0001
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