ISBN:
9004147241
,
9781281925848
,
9789004147249
Language:
French
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 398 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
African sources for African history v. 9
Parallel Title:
Print version Ta:rikh Mandinka de Bijini (Guinée-Bissau)
DDC:
305.896/345
Keywords:
Mandingo (African people) History
;
Soninke (African people) History
;
Soninke (African people) Social life and customs
;
Mandingo (African people) Social life and customs
;
Bijine (Guinea-Bissau) Social life and customs
;
Kaabu Empire History
;
Bijine (Guinea-Bissau) History
Abstract:
This volume presents a hitherto unpublished manuscript written in Arabic and Mandinka from the muslim village of Bijini in Guinea-Bissau, the ""Ta:rikh Mandinka"", a unique and structured compilation unfolding the pagan ""empire"" of Kaabu from it's mythical beginnings to it's downfall in the nineteenth-century. Two existing manuscript versions and several oral interpretations of the ""Ta:rikh"" are reproduced, transcribed, translated, compared and analysed considering philological, historical and social-anthropological issues (chaps. 1-3). The fourth chapter deals with the clerical community
Description / Table of Contents:
CARTESTa:rikh Mandinka : La reproduction de deux manuscrits arabes en possession de al-Hajj Ibrahiima « Koobaa » Kasama - MS A (18 pp), MS B (35 pp); Glossaire des anthroponymes et toponymes et des termes en mandinka et autres langues; Bibliographie; Index des auteurs cités;
Description / Table of Contents:
Editors' introduction; Remerciements; L'orthographe des noms et notions en langues étrangères; Liste des abréviations; INTRODUCTION; CHAPITRE 1 LES VERSIONS DU TEXTE ET LEUR TRANSMISSION ÉCRITE ET ORALE; CHAPITRE 2 LES VERSIONS ÉCRITES ET ORALES DU TA:RIKH MANDINKA PRÉSENTÉES EN COLONNES; CHAPITRE 3 SUJETS MYTHIQUES ET HISTORIQUES DU TA:RIKH MANDINKA (INTERPRÉTATIONS ET COMMENTAIRES COMPARÉS); Chapitre 4 : Contextes de production et de transmission des livres de Bijini : historiographie et discours social dans un village musulman au pays des Sòoninkee du Kaabu et du Badoora; TABLEAUX; IMAGES
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-395) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Texts in Mandinka and Arabic with French translations and commentary; Editors' introduction in English
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