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Annual MANSA Meeting

The 2004 annual meeting of the Mande StudiesAssociation will be at the New Orleans MarriottHotel and is scheduled for Friday, November 12from 7:00 to 8:15 am.

The early hour could have a negative effecton attendance which, in any case, is neverrepresentative of the number of MANSAmembers actually attending ASA. Pleaseconsider that this is the only opportunity we haveduring the entire year to address MANSAbusiness, and that your presence is crucial to theongoing success of the organization.

Annual Meeting of the African StudiesAssociation: MANSA-Sponsored Panel

"Language and Identity Formation in the MandeWorld"Chair: Kassim Kone, SUNY -CortlandCo-chair: Alex Enkerli, Indiana UTim Geysbeek, Grano Valley State U, A Note onSananguya and Lasiliya in Southern Guinea-ConakryBarbara Hoffman, Cleveland State U, TheLimits of Memory and JelikanJohn Hutchison, Boston D, Bamanan CulturalModels in the Emerging Bamanankan LiteratureKassim Kone, SUNY -Cortland, JokingRelationships in the Mande: Origins, Functionsand Identity Formation

Commemorating the Life and Scholarship ofNehemia Levtzion

On Saturday, November l3 at this year's AnnualMeeting of the African Studies Association therewill be three sessions devoted to the memory ofNehamia Levtzion: "Engaging with a Legacy:Nehemia Levtzion and Islam in Africa"Part I (VII-el2): 9:00-11Part II (VIII-Cl3): 11:15-1:15Part III (lX-C6): 3:00-5:00 (Sponsored by theMande Studies Association and the GhanaStudies Council)

Sixth International Conference on MandeStudies in Gninea, June 2005

Couference Schedule

18-19 (Saturday-Sunday): Arrival in Conakryand registration at the Novotel (formerly theGrand Hotel de l'Independence).

20-22 (Monday-Wednesday) Conakry: Openingsession and panels.

23 (Thursday): Travel to Kankan.24-25 (Friday-Saturday): Panel sessions,

University of Kankan.26 (Sunday) Kankan: Sightseeing and

musical/cultural events.27 (Monday): Travel back to Conakry.

David C. Conrad, President, State University of New York-OswegoKassim Kone, Vice-President, State University of New York-Cortland

Catherine Bogosian, Secretary-Treasurer, Wayne State UniversityAdyisory Board

David Henige, University of WisconsinSusan Mclntosh, Rice UniversityMohamed Saidou N'Daou, Chicago State University

Ralph A. Austen, University of ChicagoRogier Bedaux, Rijksmuseum voor VolkenkundeGeorge Brooks, Indiana University

year to work on a Bamanakan grammar forschools.TIM GEYSBEEK spent the summer (June 29-August 12) in Liberia teaching a class andperforming some administrative duties at theSIM school.STEN HAGBERG continued his research inBurkina Faso from June 7 to July 4, mostly inBobo Dioulasso.MUSA HAKIM will present a paper at ASA,"Timbuktu: Historical Meaning, CulturalMetaphor in Africa and the Diaspora.'JAN JANSEN has been promoted with tenure(June 1,2004) to the position of lecturer at thedepartment of Cultural Anthropology andDevelopment Sociology at Leiden University.MARTY KLEIN is spending seven months atCarleton College as a Visiting Professor andwill be back in Toronto in March.DOLORES KOENIG gave a paper at Point Sudin Bamako on June 19: "Le cotton? l'arachide?les deux?"GREG MANN gave a paper at Point Sud inBamako on June 12: "Ancien tirailleurs, sanspapiers et la dette de sang" MANSA membersin attendance for Greg's paper were BRAHlMACAMARA, SEKOU CAMARA, SEYDOUCAMARA, ISSAI DOUGNON, NICKHOCKIN and DOLORES KOENIG.WILLIAM MOSELEY has organized a pair ofpanels for the ASA meeting: "Cotton, NaturalResources and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa,Part I: Global and Local Policy Debates," and"Part II, Local Impacts." Bill's paper will be"Mali's Cotton Conundrum: CommodityProduction and Development on the Periphery."TOM BASSETT is chairing one of the sessionsand presenting a paper: "11 Cent Cotton: TheStruggles over the West African CottonEconomy." DOLORES KOENIG's paper is"Conceptualizing the Consequences of CottonCultivation," and SCOTT LACY is presenting"Cotton Casualties: Re-Inventing FarmerCollectives at the Expense of Rural MalianCommunities."DANIEL REED is co-recipient of the AmauryTalbot Prize for African Anthropology fromTbe Royal Anthropological Institute of GreatBritain and Ireland (RAI). The award is for theboot. Dan Ge Performance Masks and Musicin Contemporary Cote d'Ivoire. The RAI is the

orld's longest-established scholarly

Sixth International Confer-eaceStudies in Guinea: Call for- ~....,.

Prospective participants are we mesubmitting panel and paper proposals a.)i1ia1ebetween now and the deadline, 1 Fd•• ..,·2005.

Up-Date on MANSA Membms' Adlirilils

STEPHEN BELCHER is in GuineaFulbright Fellowship and will be tealtiIiI~University of Kankan, Guinea in LUiI4-<OALICE BELLAGAMBA will be .an Alexander Von Humboldt Felk f•.•r 1fln'iHer project on Chieftaincy and GoorCD~::e20th century Gambia was approvedfoundation, and she will be hosted

.Ethnologie.SEKOU BERTE is in the United ~1C5 (.

Fulbright. He spent the summer al

University of California, Santa CruzSeptember began work on a graduatearcheology at the University of Oregoa.main adviser there is STEPHEN ~ "'~ • .&.oO"

VICTORIA COIFMAN organizeddealing with West African precol .methodology held at the University ofMinnesota Saturday, October 16,9:00- .Presenters included SUSAN MONT HVICTORIA COIFMAN, and EDDA FIHJ)Sserved as one of the discussants.GRAEME COUN CIL reports that Tbe J'UJl~

Studies Association of Australasia and TIlePacific are holding their 27th annual andinternational conference in Perth, eslCnl

Australia from 26-28 November 2004.theme is "African Renewal, AfricanRenaissance: New Perspectives on Afriand Africa's Present" Details on the coofiare available at AFSAAP's website.ELIZABETH DEN OTTER will be doingresearch, partly with Bozo fishermen, inKirango-MarkaIa, Mali from November~".... 'IIU

January/February 2005,ISSIAKA DIAKITE will be giving a paper atASA, "Le griot porteur de parole et de memoiredans I'Afrique moderne et ancienne,"GERARD DUMESTRE was in Segu in Junewhere he has been returning several' times a

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association dedicated to anthropology.IMO TOULOU will present a paper at ASA,Oral transmission during Ceremonies

Preparation" (based on this year's Kamabolonpreparation in Kela).KONRAD TUCHSCHERER was in Cameroonfrom January through end of August 2004doing research on the Barnum and Bagam scripttraditions. In Foumban he translated a numberof important Bamum documents, collected oralhistories regarding the invention, use, anddecline of the script. He worked with the lastsurviving script literate (tied to the oldergeneration of script literates) who uses theBarnum script as his primary form of writing.In Foumban he also studied an originallanguage, devised by Sultan Njoya, calledShumom (Shumom is a spoken language oftenconfused by outsiders with the script).

in Bamako. Integrating social anthropologicaland ethnomusicological points of view, itstudies how urban social contexts shape thestyle of traditional celebration (konyo/wedding)music in the city. Aside from theoreticalquestions, the book also discusses the lives anddaily work of professional drummers in WestAfrica.

Book, Journal, and Article Releases

Patience Sonko-Godwin. 2004. Trade in theSenegambia Region From the 12th to the Earlyur Century (2nd Ed.). Banjul: SunrisePublishers.Originally published in 1988, this expandededition includes studies on internal trade, thetrans-Atlantic slave trade, and "legitimatetrade" from a local Gambian perspective. Pp.xv, 144; 17 illustrations include line drawingsand photos (to color), 2 maps, glossary, index.Bibliography includes 14 archival documents.ISBN 9983 9900-4-0(Sunrise Publishers, P.O. Box 955, Banjul, TheGambia)

Rainer Polak 2004. Festmusikals ArbeitTrommeln als Beruf: Jenbe-Spieler in einerwestafrikanischen Grofistadt. Berlin: ReimerVerlag.Includes CD (53 min.), 4 maps, 6 charts, 15notations, 34 tables, 30 photos, bibliography,discography, index, pp. 364.ISBN 3-496-02771-1This book is based on the author's dissertation(defended at Bayreuth university in 2002). Itwon the VAD-Nachwuchspreis 2003/04, theGerman African Studies Association's awardfor the best dissertation in this field. The bookdeals with the social history, and morespecifically with processes such asurbanization, professionalization and 'commodification of jenbe (djembe) drumming

JOURNALAfrica Today 29 (4) 2004. Special issue,"Mande Hunters, Civil Society and theState," Guest Editor, Joseph Hellweg.This volume examines recent activistmovements organized by hunters in BurkinaFaso, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, and Sierra Leone torespond to crime and civil war. Papers examinestates'responses to such movements, hunters'.alternative legal codes and ideas, theirrationales for assuming security and militaryroles, and the contradictory positions in whichthese roles have often placed them. The authors

BOOKSDavid C. Conrad. 2004. Sunjata: A WestAfrican Epic of the Mande Peoples. CambridgeMA and Indianapolis IN: Hackett PublishingCo. Pp. xlviii, 206. Thirty-five episodes in5.446 lines of narrative excerpted from c.17,000-line text recorded Fadama, Guinea, in1994 (complete, exhaustively annotatedscholarly edition eventually forthcoming).ISBN 0-87220-697-1 (pbk)ISBN 0-87220-698-X (hardcover)

Patience Sonko-Godwin. 2004. Development ofLocal Industries in the Senegambia Regionfrom the Pre-colonial to the Colonial Period.Banjul: Sunrise Publishers.Written from a local Gambian perspective andlisting two pages of local informants, chaptertopics include local industry and internal trade,soap manufacturing, salt production,woodcarving, leatherworking, pottery, weaving,ironworking, and goldsmithing. pp. xv, 119; 27pages of illustrations including line drawingsand photos (8 color), map, glossary, index.Bibliography includes 4 archival documents.ISBN 9983 9900 5 9

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seek to determine the extent to which huntershave either contributed to or underminedsecurity across West Africa as a result of theiractions.

(Heathen) in Diogo de Sa:functions and levels of meaning)" Clio. Revistado Centro de Historia daUniversidade de Lisboa, new series, 10: 135-136.

Table of Contents"Security, Socioecology, Polity: MandeHunters, Civil Society, and Nation-States inContemporary. West Africa, " Introduction byMelissa Leach

"Containing the Donzow: The Politics of Scalein Cote d'Ivoire," Thomas J. Bassett

Jose da Silva Horta 2004. "0 Islao nos textosportugueses: Noroeste Africano(sees. XV-XVII) - das representacoes aHist6ria [Islam in Portuguese texts:Western Africa (15th-17th centuries) fromrepresentation to History]" InAnt6nio Custodio Goncalves (ed.), 0 Isldo naA/rica Subsariana - Actas do 6°Coloquio Internacional Estados, Poderes eldentidades na Africa Subsariana,Oporto: Centro de Estudos Africanos daUniversidade do Porto.

"Encompassing the State: Sacrifice and ecorityin the Hunters' Movement of COte d'Ivoire,Joseph Hellweg

"Political Decentralization and TraditionalLeadership in the Benkadi Hunters' Associationin Western Burkina Faso," Sten Hagberg

Sten Hagberg. 2003. "Amero et Guimbe:histoire et religion dans la construction del'identiti tiefo" in R Kuba & eN. Somda(eds.), Histoire au peuplement et relationsinter-ethniques au Burkina Faso. Paris:KarthaIa..

"Hunter Militias and the International HumanRights Discourse in Sierra Leone and Beyond,Mariane C. Ferme and Danny Hoffman

"The Intellectuals and the Hunters: Reflectionson the Conference 'La Rencontre des Chasseursde l'Afrique de l'Ouest'," Karim Traore

Sten Hagberg. 2004. "Ethnic Identification inVoluntary Associations: The Politics ofDevelopment and Culture in Burkina Faso" inH. Englund & F.B. Nyamnjoh (eds.), Rightsand the Politics of Recognition in Africa.London and New York: ZED Books.

ARTICLESSarah Brett-Smith, 2004. "The Knowledge ofWomen" in Marier Westermann (ed.),Anthropologies of Art. Clark Studies in theVisual Arts (Williamstown, MA, Sterling andFrancine Clark Art Institute). ISBN 0-931102-55-3, $24.95 (also distributed by YaleUniversity Press, ISBN 0-300-10353-0).

Fiona Me Laughlin. 2004. "Is there an adjectiveclass in Wolof?" in R.M.W. Dixon andAlexandra A. Aikhenvald, (eds.) Adjectiveclasses: A cross-linguistic typology. Oxford:Oxford University Press.

Graeme Council 2004. "Cultural policy andmusic in Mali". Africa Quarterly. 43 (3), pp.36-51.

Barbara Polak:. 2003. "Little peasants. On theimportance of reliabilty in child labour", in:Helene d'Almeida-Topor et. al (eds.) Le travailen Afrique noire - Representations et pratiquesa I'epoque contemporaine. Paris: Karthala.Graeme Council. 2004. "Popular Music and

Politics in Sekou Tours's Guinea". AustralasianReview of African Studies. 26 (1), pp. 26-42. Giuseppina Russo. 2004. "Keledenyasira. L'arte

delia guerra. Pratica delle armi e identita aKignan (Mali)." In Fabio Viti (ed.). Guerra eviolenza in Africa Occidentale, Milan: FrancoAngeli.

Jose da Silva Horta. 2004. "A categoria deGentio em Diogo de Sa: funcoes eniveis de significacao [The category of 'Gentio'

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ew & Renewed Members& Address Changes

Anne Doquet (through 1108)18, rue Basfroi75011 ParisFRANCEannedoguet@yahoo.fr>annedoguet@yahoo_fr

RENEWED UNTIL 12/31108Anne Doquet

RENEWED UNTIL 12/31106Elisabeth den Otter

Liza Gijanto708 Westcott Street 3rdFloorSyracuse, NY 13210Igijanto@maxwell.sYLeduResearch interests: Luso-African identityformation; historical archaeology; culturecontact in Gambia.

RENEWED UNTIL 12/31105Cornelia Geising (sponsor)

RENEWED UNTIL 12/31/2004Samou CamaraMark DavidheiserBanning EyreJulianne FreemanLiza GijantoOdile GoergAlma GottliebSten Hagberg (sponsor)Tom HaleYlva HernlundJohn Hutchison (sponsor)John JohnsonMartin Klein (sponsor)Rod KnightKassim Kone (sponsor)Frederick LampFiona McLaughlinVittorio MorabitoVictoria RovineKathleen SiobinJulie StrandValerie Thiers- ThiamCraig TowerKristina Van Dyke

Sten HagbergPO Box 631SE-751 26 UppsalaSWEDENVisiting address:Thunbergsvagen 3HPh. +46184717030Fax +46 184717029-E-mail: sten.hagberg@antro.uu.sehttp://www.antro.uu.se

Fiona McLaugWinCenter for African StudiesUniversity of Florida427 Grinter HallGainesville, FL 32611-5560fmcl@ufI.eduResearch interests: The phonology andmorphology of the northern Atlantic languages(Wolof, Pulaar and Seereer), and thesociolinguistics of urban Senegal; Senegalesepopular culture, especially Islam and popularmusic.

ADDRESS CHANGESSekou BerteUniversity of OregonDepartment of Anthropology1585 13th AvenueEugene, OR97403-5209sberte@darkwing.uoregon

Mark Davidheiser23 Dogwood PlaceSewanee, TN 37375

Julie StrandMusic DepartmentWesleyan UniversityMiddletown, CT 06459istrand@wesleyan.eduResearch/teaching interests: ethnomusicology;smaller Mande sub-groups of Western BurkinaFaso and their interactions with non-Maudegroups; the balafon (all types, non-Mande aswell); music and language, including surrogatelanguages; Mande identity in minority groups.

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Valerie Thiers- Thiam862 Union Street #IFBrooklyn, NY 11215vthiersthiam@bmcc.cuny.eduResearch interests: The griot narrator in WestAfrican Literature and Cinema.

Fatoumata Keitasic Ishiaka Niare

em ArrondissementBamako, Malifat keita2003@yahoo.fr

E-MAIL CHANGESBanning Eyrebannin g@afropop.org

atban C. McOintock6Z7 Manco Dairy Rd.Pittsboro, C Z7312ncmcdin@bigzoo.net

student at orth Carolina State UniversityReturned Peace Corps Volunteer; served inDialakoroba (S~) from 1998-2000Research interests: Sustainable agriculture/low-input farming & appropriate technology fortraditional farming systems; local land use/soilfertility classification and knowledge.

Martin Klein (until March)mklein@carleton.edu

Claudia RothRothC@access.unizh.ch

Tereba Togoladnac@afribone.net.ml

Richard Warmsr.warms@txstate.edu

Elena Perekhvalskayaevsky 82, #84

191025 St PetersburgRussialingua@ep3665.spb.eduelena%@yandex.ruResearch interests: Dictionary and grammar ofthe Mwan language (Mande Sud languagefamily).

MANSA Web Addressuweb. txstate.edulanthropolog:)-/TNIlL9

NEW MEMBERSRobert A. BellingerSuffolk UniversityHistory Department8 Ashburton PlaceBoston, MA 02108rbelling@suffolk.eduResearch interests: Senegalese history andculture; Malinke music and cultural traditions..

Giuseppina Russo2, rue de Chatillon75014 Paris, FRANCEgiuppi.russo@wanadooJrEcole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales,ParisResearch interests: Narration of precolonialhistory in southern Mali (region of Sikasso);oral traditions about the Kenedugu Kingdomand other political units of the 19th century.

Tracy Carter7939 Hollywood Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90046tracy@postharvard.eduResearch interests: Jalimusolu in Gambia;African diaspora retentions, especially relatingto the power of speech.

Stephen R. Thompson300 N. College StreetNorthfield, MN 55057thompsos@carleton.eduHistory major, Francophone studies minorResearch interests: Joking cousin relationships;the historical/folkloric basis of names and theirsocial implications; the role of Islamhistorically, as well as general music, arts andculture topics.

. Anna ErmanToreza 102-1-44194017 St PetersburgRussiawentere@pochta.ruResearch interests: Dictionary and grammar ofthe Dan (Yakouba) language (Mande Sudlanguage family).

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s.JJ.ittiog Articles to Mande Studies auteurs d'obtenir toute permission necessairepour la reproduction.

Nos collegues en Afrique d'ayant pas accesa un ordinateur sont pries d'envoyer unmanuscrit dactylographic, et de conserver undeuxieme exemplaire pour leur propre usage.

Les articles peuvent etre soumis par voieelectronique a Ariane Deluz(Ariane.Deluz@ehessJr) ou a Stephen Belcher(spbelcher@mindspring.com); les manuscritsdevraient etre addresses a Stephen Belcher(R.D. 1, Box 1000, Petersburg PA, 16669--USA). Dans le cas des articles envoyes paremail, Ie texte ne doit pas etre envoye dans Iemessage mais comme fichier attache au mail.Le format prefere, autre que Microsoft Word,est Ie "Rich Text File" (suffixe .rtf).

lbe journal of the Mande Studies Association,Mande Studies, welcomes articles on all aspectsof the Mande world and the peoples andcultures that compose it. Submissions will bepeer-reviewed before acceptance. The journalwill accept and publish manuscripts in Englishor French. (For additional information onMande Studies see the web page:http://www.swt~edu/anthropology/mansa!wisconu.html)

Manuscript submissions should betypewritten or computer-printed in double-spacing, and should be accompanied, ifpossible, with an electronic version of the texton a diskette (IBM/MS-DOS; Mac texts shouldbe sent bye-mail). Authors must furnish anymaps or illustrations in hard copy suitable forreproduction, and are responsible for obtainingany necessary permission.

Colleagues from Africa without access tocomputers should send a typewrittenmanuscript, keeping a copy for their own use.

Submissions may be made electronically toAriane Deluz (Ariane.Deluz@ehessJr) or toStephen Belcher (spbelcher@mindspring.comor spb3@psu.edu); manuscript submissionsshould be sent to Stephen Belcher (RD. 1 Box1000, Petersburg PA, 16669 USA).ln the caseof electronic submissions, the text should besent as an attachment and not in the body of themessage. The preferred format, if notWordPerfect or Microsoft Word, is as a 'richtext file' (suffix: .rtf).

La revue Etudes Mande invite nos colleguesa presenter des contributions portant sur tous lesaspects du monde maude et des peuples et descultures qui le composent. Les articles proposesseront evalues anonymement avant d'etreretenus. La revue accepte et publie des articlesen anglais ou en francais.

Les manuscrits soumis doivent etre saisis ouimprimes sur ordinateur en doubleinterligne, et devraient s'accompagner sipossible de la version electronique du texte surdisquette (format IBM/MS-Dos). Les textescomposes sur Macintosh doivent nous parvenircommes fichiers attaches a un email. Lesauteurs sont pries de fournir leurs cartes etillustrations sur papier, d'une qualitepermettantla reproduction. II est de la responsabilite des

Joining MANSA and Renewing Membership

Regular and institutional membership $25,sponsoring membership $40, students $5(regular and sponsoring membership includessubscription to the journal Mande Studies).Make check out to MANSA and (if you arejoining) send your institutional affiliation and abrief description of your research interests to:Dr. Catherine BogosianDepartment of HistoryWayne State University3094 Faculty/Administration BuildingDetroit, MI 48202Cell: 267-496-8806 Office: 313-577-6148E-mail: ao0184@wayne.edu

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