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Contes Wolof du Baol
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ISBN: 2264000406 Year: 1976 Volume: 1050 Publisher: Paris Union Générale

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La musique des Wolof du Sénégal (régions du Kajoor, Saalum et Waalo)
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ISBN: 9789042933958 9782758402671 904293395X Year: 2016 Volume: 9 468 Publisher: Paris Leuven Peeters

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Saints and politicians : essays in the organisation of a Senegalese peasant society
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ISBN: 0521205727 0521101093 051175969X 9780521205726 9780511759697 9780521101097 Year: 1975 Volume: 15 Publisher: London: Cambridge university press,

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Political life among the Wolof (the largest and most powerful of Senegal's 'tribal' groups) is the principal theme of this collection of essays. The focus of study is on African political leadership, in towns and villages. Within the constraints of alien control or influence, it is argued, cultural and organisational barriers have consistently allowed a wide range of initiative to African leaders and communities in a creative and flexible adjustment to new and unfamiliar demands. Exploration of this African initiative in various contexts suggests a complex, fascinating pattern of cultural and structural interaction. The multidisciplinary approach to politics in these essays will interest historians and social anthropologists as well as political scientists. These studies are indeed relevant to any student of the problems of 'underdeveloped' societies involved in the modern state. Parts of the essays have been published elsewhere, but all have been extensively revised, updated and integrated to a coherent pattern of analysis.


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Ethnicity and the colonial state
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ISBN: 9004307354 9004307346 9789004307353 9789004307346 Year: 2016 Publisher: Boston Brill

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Ethnicity and the Colonial State analyses, through a comparison of three West African communities (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), the ways in which ethnic labels and arguments are used (or omitted) in dealings with colonial administrations. It follows these strategies and choices over more than a century, between the conquest periods and independence. Where state structures were weak as a factor of group cohesion, ethnic arguments were especially likely to come into play. The analysis discusses internal fissures and conflicting interests within the communities as other incentives for ethnic coalition-building. The observations made in this book are put into the context of a global historical perspective, for which “ethnicity” has so far remained a badly defined concept.

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