Fr. 103.20

Matthew Schaffer

Djinns, Stars and Warriors: Mandinka Legends from Pakao, Senegal

Mandingo · Paperback / Softback

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Description

This sourcebook contains some of the finest Mandinka oral traditions ever published, emphasizing history and witchcraft. Along with some Arabic texts in translation, these texts reveal Mandinka to be a significant West African literature and worthy contributor to the broader Mande legacy.

About the author

Matt Schaffer, D.Phil. (1976) in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, England, is CEO of Global Tactics, Inc, in Spokane, Washington. He wrote Mandinko: The Ethnography of a West African Holy Land (Waveland Press, 1987) and published Pakao Book (1975).

Product details

Authors	Matthew Schaffer
Publisher	Brill

Languages	Mandingo
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	01.10.2003

EAN	9789004131248
ISBN	978-90-04-13124-8
No. of pages	228
Dimensions	163 mm x 239 mm x 19 mm
Weight	449 g
Series	African Sources for African Hi
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design

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