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Rites and ceremonies --- Manners and customs --- Folklore --- Rites et cérémonies --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Origin --- Origine --- Origines --- #VCV monografie 2006 --- Rites et cérémonies --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Origin of manners and customs --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Ethnology --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Coutumes et pratiques

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Folklore --- -Legends --- -Folk tales --- Traditions --- Urban legends --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Namibia --- Social life and customs. --- Legends --- -Namibia --- Folk tales --- GRN (Namibia) --- Namibia ye Likuluhile --- Namibië --- Namibii︠a︡ --- Republic of Namibia --- S.W.A./Namibia --- SWA/Namibia --- SWA/Namibië --- South-West Africa

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Griots --- Laudatory poetry, African --- Poésie élogieuse africaine --- Poésie élogieuse africaine --- Folklore --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Performance --- History and criticism. --- Tradition orale --- Art de conter --- History --- Histoire --- Africa --- Laudatory poetry [African ] --- History and criticism --- History. --- Performance. --- Historians --- Storytellers --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- African laudatory poetry --- African poetry

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The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried to pin him down. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation--the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction. Africa often enters the global imagination through news accounts of ethnic war, famine, and despotic political regimes. Those interested in countering such dystopic images--be they cultural nationalists in the African diaspora or connoisseurs of "global culture"--often found their representations of an emancipatory Africa on an enthusiasm for West African popular culture and performance arts. Based on extensive field research in The Gambia and focusing on the figure of the jali, Performing Africa interrogates these representations together with their cultural and political implications. It explores how Africa is produced, circulated, and consumed through performance and how encounters through performance create the place of Africa in the world. Innovative and discerning, Performing Africa is a provocative contribution to debates over cultural nationalism and the construction of identity and history in Africa and elsewhere.

Folklore --- Griots --- Mandingo (African people) --- Music --- Performance --- History and criticism. --- Gambia --- Social life and customs. --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Malinke (African people) --- Mandé (African people) --- Manding (African people) --- Mandingue (African people) --- Mandinka (African people) --- Mandino (African people) --- Maninka (African people) --- Maninkaalu (African people) --- Soce (African people) --- Sosse (African people) --- Gambie --- Colony of the Gambia --- Republic of the Gambia --- Respublika Gambii︠a︡ --- Gambii︠a︡ --- Gambia, The --- The Gambia --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Historians --- Storytellers --- ガンビア --- Ganbia --- History and criticism --- 冈比亚 --- Gangbiya

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Masks --- Masquerades --- Children --- Rites and ceremonies --- Folklore --- Folklore and children --- Masques --- Mascarades --- Enfants --- Rites et cérémonies --- Folklore et enfants --- Social aspects --- Social life and customs. --- Performance --- Aspect social --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Interprétation --- Africa --- Afrique --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Amusements --- Mumming --- Costume --- Carnival --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Ethnology --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Children and folklore --- Folk-lore and children --- Folklore and youth --- Youth and folklore --- Youth --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Social life and customs