TY - BOOK ID - 85469385 TI - Masquerades of modernity : power and secrecy in Casamance, Senegal AU - De Jong, Ferdinand AU - International African Institute. PY - 2007 SN - 0748670645 0748633219 0748633197 PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Secrecy KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Group identity KW - Ethnology KW - Globalization. KW - Concealment KW - Privacy KW - Hiding places KW - Global cities KW - Globalisation KW - Internationalization KW - International relations KW - Anti-globalization movement KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Collective identity KW - Community identity KW - Cultural identity KW - Social identity KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Social psychology KW - Collective memory KW - Ceremonies KW - Cult KW - Cultus KW - Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies KW - Religious ceremonies KW - Religious rites KW - Rites of passage KW - Traditions KW - Ritualism KW - Manners and customs KW - Mysteries, Religious KW - Ritual KW - Casamance (Senegal) KW - Casamance, Senegal KW - ReĢgion de Casamance (Senegal) KW - Kolda (Senegal : Region) KW - Ziguinchor (Senegal : Region) KW - Social life and customs. KW - Religious life and customs. KW - Culture and globalization. KW - Globalization and culture KW - Globalization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85469385 AB - 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. ER -