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A propaganda document in support of the 19th century Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi: Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir al-Fulānī’s “Letter on the appearance of the twelfth caliph” (Risāla fī ẓuhūr al-khalīfa al-thānī ʻashar)

Afriques, 2016
The Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi, located in the modern Republic of Mali, was founded by Aḥmad Lobbo in 1818 and left behind a huge corpus of Arabic correspondence and dispatches that is mainly unexplored by historians.
Mauro Nobili
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Northern Mali: the things we assume [PDF]

, 2012
Events have developed quickly these last days and weeks in Mali, as fast as an all terrain vehicle can drive in the sand, basically. And although electronic media can go faster than four wheel drives, they can only go as fast as the rumours they feed on.
Lecocq, Baz
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"L'ombre fragile" : maladie et rituel de possession au Niger (exemple peul) [PDF]

, 1990
Laurent Vidal: "The fragile shadow". Illness and possession ritual in Niger (Fulani example). The Fulani of Niamey area, in Niger, have developped a possession ritual which is characterized by an omnipresence of illness, from the first spirit's ...
Vidal, Laurent
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Bentyia (Kukyia): a Songhay–Mande meeting point, and a “missing link” in the archaeology of the West African diasporas of traders, warriors, praise-singers, and clerics

Afriques, 2013
The present tragedy in Mali draws our attention to the divisions, tensions and conflicts between West African ethnic groups, religious persuasions, and populations from different regions, in both the present and the past.
Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias
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Is Otherness Represented in Songhay-Zarma society ? A case study of the 'Tula' story [PDF]

, 2012
This communication will examine the representations of otherness and identity in a special society: the Songhay-Zarma of Niger. I will analyze how a jasare (griot, who knows and tells the genealogies and the stories of 'noble0 families) narrates the ...
Bornand, Sandra
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Entre hechicería y antropología

Alteridades, 2017
Se presenta la traducción de una conferencia del profesor Paul Stoller en el tópico Ideas matter/ Hundere, impartida en Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon, October 27, 2014.
Sergio Armando González Varela, Paul Stoller   +1 more
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Voix de femmes songhay-zarma du Niger: Entre normes et transgressions [PDF]

, 2012
Revue en ligne: http://mondesanciens.revues.org/index675.htmlInternational audienceThere is, when a man remarries among the Songhay-Zarma of Niger, a specific ritual for polygamous marriages, called the marcanda, in which women, divided into " big " and "
Bornand, Sandra
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Belief or experience? The anthropologist's dilemma [PDF]

, 2005
As an anthropologist who studies the religious beliefs and practices of others, I have long pondered the role that my own religious experience plays in my work, and I am similarly curious concerning the relationship between personal belief and practice
Bowie, Fiona
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African Bibliophiles: Books and Libraries in Medieval Timbuktu [PDF]

, 2004
The West African city of Timbuktu flourished as a center for Islamic scholarship from the 14th through the 16th century. The social structure of the city was based on wealth, with further stratification by degree of literacy, and expertise in ...
Singleton, Brent D.
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El arte verbal del jasare: tradición y modernidad [PDF]

, 2014
International audienceCes lignes ne sont pas une présentation des griots, puisque tel est précisément le sujet du livre que vous tenez entre les mains, mais elles se veulent plutôt une mise en bouche qui – je l’espère – vous donnera l’envie d’en ...
Bornand, Sandra
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