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Grammatical relations in Mandinka

2019
In this paper, after establishing on a strictly language-internal basis the distinction between four possible syntactic positions for arguments in Mandinka predicative constructions, and analyzing alignment relationships in the coding properties of arguments, I discuss alignment in the syntactic operations and constructions likely to be relevant to the
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Mandinka

Abstract Mandinka belongs to the Manding dialect cluster included in the western branch of the Mande language family. It is spoken by approximately 1.5 million speakers in Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau. Mandinka is characterized by its long-standing contacts with Atlantic languages. Most ethnic Mandinka do not speak the languages of
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The Mandinka Nosological System in the Context of Post-Trauma Syndromes

Transcultural Psychiatry, 2003
Preliminary studies of trauma and psychiatric sequelae among West African refugees have revealed the need to develop West African-sensitive assessment instruments. This article addresses the results of the first stage of such a process which involved two focus group discussions with nine traditional Mandinka practitioners.
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The Masked Figure and Social Control: the Mandinka Case

Africa, 1971
Opening ParagraphWithin a historical and comparative context, the following paper describes and analyses the role of masked figures in social control among the Mandinka of the Gambia. A direct relationship will be demonstrated between the problems of rule-application in hierarchical communities, where authority for rule-making and rule-application is ...
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Trust in the Mandinka Way: The Cultural Context of Sibling Care

1989
Anthropologists have long recognized the role children play in the socialization of other children (Gay, 1973; Mead, 1928, 1930; Read, 1960; Weisner & Gallimore, 1977; Whiting & Whiting, 1975; Wilson, 1963). Not uncommonly, ethnographic description of this socializing role focuses on young adults who are perceived by participant-observers as well as ...
Robert D. Whittemore, Elizabeth Beverly
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Bound to Africa: the Mandinka Legacy in the New World

History in Africa, 2005
I offer here a theory of “cultural convergence,” as a corollary to Darwin's natural selection, regarding how slave Creoles and culture were formed among the Gullah and, by extension, supported by other examples, in the Americas. When numerous speakers from different, and sometimes related, ethnic groups have words with similar sounds and evoke related ...
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Beyond Migration and Conquest: Oral Traditions and Mandinka Ethnicity in Senegambia

History in Africa, 1985
One of the most prevalent and widely-accepted themes in the history of the Mandinka of Senegambia concerns the great Mandinka migrations--the westward movement of large groups of people that included the distant ancestors of today's Senegambian Mandinka population.
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Mandinka Kora: Gambie

Ethnomusicology, 1974
Anthony King, Jali Nyama Suso
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Sprache und Musik in Mandinka-Erzahlungen

Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture, 2003
Susanne Schedtler, Katrin Pfeiffer
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Mandinka Drumming

African Arts, 1974
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