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Defiant maids and stubborn farmers : tradition and invention in Mende story performance
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ISBN: 0521241979 0521105048 0511753055 Year: 1982 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone. Although it is a traditional form, the narratives are not remembered or retold, but on each occasion the performers recreate out of a common stock of characters and plots domeisia, which are singular and sometimes brilliant expressions of a singular, and often brilliant, culture. In this book Donald Cosentino presents a large selection of these narratives, as he collected them in dramatic performance on the verandahs and around the cooking fires of a Mende village. The domei is told to please, and Dr Cosentino details the various elements that constitute the pleasure of an oral performance. But beneath the surface glitter of these ironic, horrifying, bawdy and haunting narrative performances, there is an intellectual hardness of argument and debate which shines through the domeisia included here. Dominating these performances, and emblematic of the entire artistic tradition, are the 'everywoman' figure of the Defiant Maid, Yombo, and the 'everyman' Stubborn Farmer, Kpana.

The underneath of things : violence, history, and the everyday in Sierra Leone
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ISBN: 0520225430 0520225422 9780520225435 9780520225428 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berkeley: University of California press,

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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sierra Leone --- Mende (African people) --- Sex role --- Landscape assessment --- Mendé (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Mende (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Paysages --- Material culture --- Social life and customs. --- Social aspects --- Culture matérielle --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Aspect social --- Evaluation --- Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Social life and customs --- Kpuawala (Sierra Leone) --- Politics and government --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Mendé (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Culture matérielle --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Boumpe (African people) --- Hulo (African people) --- Huro (African people) --- Kossa (African people) --- Kosso (African people) --- Mende --- Mendi (African people) --- Ethnology --- Assessment, Landscape --- Environmental perception --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Perception, Landscape --- Human ecology --- Land use --- Landscape protection --- Social aspects. --- Mende (African people) - Material culture --- Mende (African people) - Social life and customs --- Sex role - Sierra Leone - Kpuawala --- Landscape assessment - Sierra Leone - Kpuawala --- Kpuawala (Sierra Leone) - Politics and government --- Kpuawala (Sierra Leone) - Social life and customs --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- Anthropologie culturelle --- Mendé (peuple d'Afrique) --- Situation sociale --- Vie sociale et coutumes

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