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

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: English, Mandingo
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2003
• 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
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore