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Diola (African people) --- History. --- Dyamate (African people) --- Dyola (Senegalese and Gambian people) --- Jola (African people) --- Kudamata (African people) --- Kujamatak (African people) --- Yola (Senegalese and Gambian people) --- Ethnology --- History --- Casamance (Senegal) --- Casamance, Senegal --- Région de Casamance (Senegal) --- Kolda (Senegal : Region) --- Ziguinchor (Senegal : Region) --- Casamance. Histoire. --- Casamance. Geschiedenis.

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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.

Secrecy --- Rites and ceremonies --- Group identity --- Ethnology --- Globalization. --- Concealment --- Privacy --- Hiding places --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Casamance (Senegal) --- Casamance, Senegal --- Région de Casamance (Senegal) --- Kolda (Senegal : Region) --- Ziguinchor (Senegal : Region) --- Social life and customs. --- Religious life and customs. --- Culture and globalization. --- Globalization and culture --- Globalization