Mande Studies Tables of Contents (Vols. 1-8) ~Vol. 1 (1999)~ David C. Conrad: The Mande Studies Association and the journal Mande Studies.  Special Section: Changing Frontiers: Migratory Movements of the Mande People and their Neighbors  Guest-Editors: Mirjam De Bruijn and Han Van Dijk  Allen M. Howard: Mande and Fulbe Interaction and Identity in Northwestern Sierra Leone, Late 18th through Early 20th Centuries.  Mirjam De Bruijn and Han Van Dijk: Fulbe Mobility: Migration and Travel into Mande  Dolores Koenig, Tiéman Diarra, and Moussa Sow: Aspects of Interethnic Relations in Contemporary Agricultural Migration and Settlement in Southern Mali. Edda Fields: Identity, Rice, and Oral Traditions: Reflections from Fieldwork among Nalu, Baga Fore, and Baga Pukur Speakers.  General Articles  Martin Klein: Ethnic Pluralism and Homogeneity in the Western Sudan: Saalum, Segu, Wasulu.  Eduardo Costa Dias: Les mandingues de l'ancien Kaabu et le savoir islamique  Valentin Vydrin: Language Contacts: Manding and Diola FognyMohammed Saidou N'Daou. Politique de peuplement et construction d'identité des Mikhiforé (Boké, Guinée). ~Vol. 2 (2000)~ Special Issue: "Secrets and Lies in the Mande World." Guest editors: Molly Roth and Jan Jansen Molly Roth and Jan Jansen: Introduction: The Social Life of Knowledge Sory Camara: Servitudes rituelles, subversion narrative, ou le secret de l'existence Molly Roth: The 'Secret' in Malian Historical Consciousness: Renarrating the West Dorothea E. Schulz: Seductive Secretiveness: Jeliw as Creators and Creations of Ethnography Barbara G. Hoffman: Classifying Information: Secrets, Lies, and Other Categories in Mande Jan Jansen: The Mande Magical Mystery Tour: The Mission Griaule in Kangaba (Mali) Julianne E. Freeman: Knowledge, Secrecy, and the Practice of Senior Womanhood Among the Bamana of the Bldugu (Mali) Alma Gottlieb: Secrets and Society: The Beng of Cte d'Ivoire Ferdinand de Jong: Secrecy and the State: The Kankurang Masquerade in Senegal Patrick McNaughton: Comments on 'Secrets and Lies' ~Vol. 3 (2001)~ I. The Centenary of Samori Tour Mohamed Sadou N'Daou: The Production of History in Post-Socialist Guinea: Competing Images of Almamy Samory Tour  Djibril Tamsir Niane: The Origins of Samori's State Lansin Kaba: Almami Samori Tour within the West African Imperial Tradition Ismal Barry: L'Almami Samori et le Fuuta Jaloo Hamadi Bocoum: Samori's Smithies, or a Rough Draft for Technological Independence Ansoumane Camara: L'image de Km Bourma dans l'pope samorienne  Souleymane Kant and the N'Ko Alphabet Dianne White Oyler: The Era of Mande Enlightenment Joseph Lauer: A Transliteration Scheme for the N'Ko Alphabet Valentin Vydrine: Soulemane Kant, un philosophe-innovateur traditionaliste maninka, vu travers ses crits en Nko David C. Conrad: Reconstructing Oral Tradition: Souleymane Kante's Approach to Writing Mande History General Articles Alice Bellagamba: "So Good a Chief, Even Vultures Would Follow Him:" Colonial Rule and Political Traditions along the River Gambia Ingse Skattum: La rptition comme trait d'oralit: L'example du rcit des "Trois Amadou" ~Vol. 4 (2002)~ Special Issue: Gender in the Mande World Guest Editor: Barbara E. Hoffman Barbara E. Hoffman: Gender Ideology and Practice in Mande Societies and in Mande Studies Kassim Kon: When Male Becomes Female and Female Becomes Male in Mande Rosa De Jorio: When is 'Married' Married? Multiple Marriage Avenues in Urban Mali Clemens Zobel: Clients or Critics? Politics, Griots, and Gender in Post-Colonial Mali Marloes Janson: Praising as a Gendered Activity: How Jalimusoolu and Jalikeolu Exercise Their Profession in Eastern Gambia Kirsten Langeveld: Gender and the Kankurang Mask: An Analysis of Myth and Female Ritual Kristina Van Dyke: Gender Objectified: Revealing Bodies in Bamana Sculpture Barbara E. Frank: Thoughts on Who Made the Jenn Terra-cottas: Gender, Craft Specialization, and Mande Art History Eugenia W. Herbert: Gender and Technology in Mande Societies: The Rashomon Problem General Articles Armelle Faure: Mossi et Bissa au XIXe Sicle: Une rvolution politique en rgion bissa Alioune Sow: The Curse of the Sons or the Betrayal of the Fathers? Rethinking the Family in Contemporary Malian Literature ~Vol. 5 (2003)~ Modibo Keita's Mali: 1960-1968 Guest Editors Gregory Mann and Baz Lecocq Gregory Mann and Baz Lecocq Introduction: Writing histories of an African post-colony Seydou Camera Une grande figure de l'histoire du Mali: Modibo Keita, 1915-1977 Baz Lecocq From Colonialism to Keita: Comparing Pre- and Post-Independence Regimes (1946-1968) Daouda Gary- Tounkara Quand les migrants demandent la route, Modibo Keita retorque: "Retoumez la la terre!" Les Baragnini et la dsertion du "Chantier national" (1958-1968) Gregory Mann Violence, Dignity and Mali's New Model Army, 1960-68 Catherine Bogosian The "Little Farming Soldiers": The Evolution of a Labor Army in Post Colonial Mali Nicholas Hopkins Kita (Mali) in the Time of Modibo Keita: Globalization and Local Continuity General Articles Carlos Lopes Kaab and Its Neighbors: A Historical and Territorial Interpretation of Conflicts Research Notes Introduction Marie Yvonne Curtis Les corrlations entre genre, culture, et communication en Guine Hadja Kadiatou Traor La condition de la femme en Guine Mali on the Mall Notes on Contributors ~Vol. 6 (2004)~ Special Section: Climates of the Mande Edited by Roderick J. McIntosh and Joseph A. Tainter Roderick J. McIntosh and Joseph A. Tainter Palaeoclimates and the Mande Roderick J. McIntosh Chasing Denkejugu over the Maude Landscape Robert Vemet Evolution du peuplement et glissement des isohytes la fin de la prhistoire et au dbut de l'histoire en Afrique de l'ouest sahlienne. Hamady Bocoum Rapports entre le potentiel forestier et production metallurgique dansla valle du fleuve Senegal Roderick J. Mcintosh Two Thousand Years of Niche Specialization and Ecological Resilience in the Middle Niger Joseph A. Tainter Comparative Responses to Climate Change General Articles Brahima Camara Le Tirailleur travers "Ancien combattant," un chant-rcit de Idrissa Soumaworo Nicholas Hopkins A circumcision at Kita (Mali) in 1965 Kirsten Langeveld Initiation Rituals as the Stage of Interaction Between Genders Ryan Thomas Skinner Determined Urbanites: Diasporic Je/iya in the 21st Century Notes on Contributors ~Vol. 7~ ~Vol. 8~ Special Issue: Education in the Mande World Guest Editors: Dinie Bouwman and Anneke Breedveld Dinnie Bouwman and Anneke Breedveld Introduction Kirstin Tounkara Sotrama Parentiké: l'apprenti-chauffeur et son monde du travail Simon Toulou Oral Transmission to Younger Generations During Ceremonial Preparations: The Case of the 2004 Kamabolon ti. Tal Tamari L'Enseignement islamique traditionnel de niveau avancé: cursus, pédagogie, implications culturelles et perspectives comparatives. Dinie Bouwman Modern Arabic Education in Mali: The Madrasas and Corresponding Higher Arabic Education Ingse Skattum The Introduction of the National Languages into the Educational System of Mali: Objectives and Consequences of the Reform Gérard Dumestre La classe école: une proposition radicale pour l'éducation au Mali Anneke Breedveld The Rejection of Formal Education in the 5th Region of Mali Sten Hagberg "Why Do the Bench?" Education as Modernity and Estrangement General Articles: Marloes Janson "We're the sauce on top of the rice:" A Case Study on the Finoo Negotiation of Muslim Identity in the Gambia Notes on Contributors

Mande Studies Tables of Contents (Vols. 1-8)

~Vol. 1 (1999)~

David C. Conrad: The Mande Studies Association and the journal Mande Studies.

Special Section: Changing Frontiers: Migratory Movements of the Mande People and their Neighbors

Guest-Editors: Mirjam De Bruijn and Han Van Dijk

Allen M. Howard: Mande and Fulbe Interaction and Identity in Northwestern Sierra Leone, Late 18th through Early 20th Centuries.

Mirjam De Bruijn and Han Van Dijk: Fulbe Mobility: Migration and Travel into Mande

Dolores Koenig, Tiéman Diarra, and Moussa Sow: Aspects of Interethnic Relations in Contemporary Agricultural Migration and Settlement in Southern Mali.

Edda Fields: Identity, Rice, and Oral Traditions: Reflections from Fieldwork among Nalu, Baga Fore, and Baga Pukur Speakers.

General Articles

Martin Klein: Ethnic Pluralism and Homogeneity in the Western Sudan: Saalum, Segu, Wasulu.

Eduardo Costa Dias: Les mandingues de l'ancien Kaabu et le savoir islamique

Valentin Vydrin: Language Contacts: Manding and Diola FognyMohammed Saidou N'Daou. Politique de peuplement et construction d'identité des Mikhiforé (Boké, Guinée).

~Vol. 2 (2000)~

Special Issue: "Secrets and Lies in the Mande World."

Guest editors: Molly Roth and Jan Jansen

Molly Roth and Jan Jansen: Introduction: The Social Life of Knowledge

Sory Camara: Servitudes rituelles, subversion narrative, ou le secret de l'existence

Molly Roth: The 'Secret' in Malian Historical Consciousness: Renarrating the West

Dorothea E. Schulz: Seductive Secretiveness: Jeliw as Creators and Creations of Ethnography

Barbara G. Hoffman: Classifying Information: Secrets, Lies, and Other Categories in Mande

Jan Jansen: The Mande Magical Mystery Tour: The Mission Griaule in Kangaba (Mali)

Julianne E. Freeman: Knowledge, Secrecy, and the Practice of Senior Womanhood Among the Bamana of the Bldugu (Mali)

Alma Gottlieb: Secrets and Society: The Beng of Cte d'Ivoire

Ferdinand de Jong: Secrecy and the State: The Kankurang Masquerade in Senegal

Patrick McNaughton: Comments on 'Secrets and Lies'

~Vol. 3 (2001)~

I. The Centenary of Samori Tour

Mohamed Sadou N'Daou: The Production of History in Post-Socialist Guinea: Competing Images of Almamy Samory Tour

Djibril Tamsir Niane: The Origins of Samori's State

Lansin Kaba: Almami Samori Tour within the West African Imperial Tradition

Ismal Barry: L'Almami Samori et le Fuuta Jaloo

Hamadi Bocoum: Samori's Smithies, or a Rough Draft for Technological Independence

Ansoumane Camara: L'image de Km Bourma dans l'pope samorienne

II.Souleymane Kant and the N'Ko Alphabet
III.

Dianne White Oyler: The Era of Mande Enlightenment

Joseph Lauer: A Transliteration Scheme for the N'Ko Alphabet

Valentin Vydrine: Soulemane Kant, un philosophe-innovateur traditionaliste maninka, vu travers ses crits en Nko

David C. Conrad: Reconstructing Oral Tradition: Souleymane Kante's Approach to Writing Mande History

III.General Articles
IV.

Alice Bellagamba: "So Good a Chief, Even Vultures Would Follow Him:" Colonial Rule and Political Traditions along the River Gambia

Ingse Skattum: La rptition comme trait d'oralit: L'example du rcit des "Trois Amadou"

~Vol. 4 (2002)~

Special Issue: Gender in the Mande World

Guest Editor: Barbara E. Hoffman

Barbara E. Hoffman: Gender Ideology and Practice in Mande Societies and in Mande Studies

Kassim Kon: When Male Becomes Female and Female Becomes Male in Mande

Rosa De Jorio: When is 'Married' Married? Multiple Marriage Avenues in Urban Mali

Clemens Zobel: Clients or Critics? Politics, Griots, and Gender in Post-Colonial Mali

Marloes Janson: Praising as a Gendered Activity: How Jalimusoolu and Jalikeolu Exercise Their Profession in Eastern Gambia

Kirsten Langeveld: Gender and the Kankurang Mask: An Analysis of Myth and Female Ritual

Kristina Van Dyke: Gender Objectified: Revealing Bodies in Bamana Sculpture

Barbara E. Frank: Thoughts on Who Made the Jenn Terra-cottas: Gender, Craft Specialization, and Mande Art History

Eugenia W. Herbert: Gender and Technology in Mande Societies: The Rashomon Problem

General Articles

Armelle Faure: Mossi et Bissa au XIXe Sicle: Une rvolution politique en rgion bissa

Alioune Sow: The Curse of the Sons or the Betrayal of the Fathers? Rethinking the Family in Contemporary Malian Literature

~Vol. 5 (2003)~

Modibo Keita's Mali: 1960-1968

Guest Editors Gregory Mann and Baz Lecocq

Gregory Mann and Baz Lecocq

Introduction: Writing histories of an African post-colony

Seydou Camera

Une grande figure de l'histoire du Mali: Modibo Keita, 1915-1977

Baz Lecocq

From Colonialism to Keita: Comparing Pre- and Post-Independence Regimes (1946-1968)

Daouda Gary- Tounkara

Quand les migrants demandent la route, Modibo Keita retorque:

"Retoumez la la terre!" Les Baragnini et la dsertion du "Chantier

national" (1958-1968)

Gregory Mann

Violence, Dignity and Mali's New Model Army, 1960-68

Catherine Bogosian

The "Little Farming Soldiers": The Evolution of a Labor Army

in Post Colonial Mali

Nicholas Hopkins

Kita (Mali) in the Time of Modibo Keita: Globalization and Local

Continuity

General Articles

Carlos Lopes

Kaab and Its Neighbors: A Historical and Territorial Interpretation of Conflicts

Research Notes

Introduction

Marie Yvonne Curtis

Les corrlations entre genre, culture, et communication en Guine

Hadja Kadiatou Traor

La condition de la femme en Guine

Mali on the Mall

Notes on Contributors

~Vol. 6 (2004)~

Special Section: Climates of the Mande

Edited by Roderick J. McIntosh and Joseph A. Tainter

Roderick J. McIntosh and Joseph A. Tainter

Palaeoclimates and the Mande

Roderick J. McIntosh

Chasing Denkejugu over the Maude Landscape

Robert Vemet

Evolution du peuplement et glissement des isohytes la fin de la prhistoire et au dbut de l'histoire en Afrique de l'ouest sahlienne.

Hamady Bocoum

Rapports entre le potentiel forestier et production metallurgique dansla valle du fleuve Senegal

Roderick J. Mcintosh

Two Thousand Years of Niche Specialization and Ecological Resilience in the Middle Niger

Joseph A. Tainter

Comparative Responses to Climate Change

General Articles

Brahima Camara

Le Tirailleur travers "Ancien combattant," un chant-rcit de Idrissa Soumaworo

Nicholas Hopkins

A circumcision at Kita (Mali) in 1965

Kirsten Langeveld

Initiation Rituals as the Stage of Interaction Between Genders

Ryan Thomas Skinner

Determined Urbanites: Diasporic Je/iya in the 21st Century

Notes on Contributors

~Vol. 7~

~Vol. 8~

Special Issue: Education in the Mande World
Guest Editors: Dinie Bouwman and Anneke Breedveld

Dinnie Bouwman and Anneke Breedveld

Introduction

Kirstin Tounkara

Sotrama Parentiké: l'apprenti-chauffeur et son monde du travail

Simon Toulou

Oral Transmission to Younger Generations During Ceremonial Preparations: The Case of the 2004 Kamabolon ti.

Tal Tamari

L'Enseignement islamique traditionnel de niveau avancé: cursus, pédagogie, implications culturelles et perspectives comparatives.

Dinie Bouwman

Modern Arabic Education in Mali: The Madrasas and Corresponding Higher Arabic Education

Ingse Skattum

The Introduction of the National Languages into the Educational System of Mali: Objectives and Consequences of the Reform

Gérard Dumestre

La classe école: une proposition radicale pour l'éducation au Mali

Anneke Breedveld

The Rejection of Formal Education in the 5th Region of Mali

Sten Hagberg

"Why Do the Bench?" Education as Modernity and Estrangement

General Articles:

Marloes Janson

"We're the sauce on top of the rice:" A Case Study on the Finoo Negotiation of Muslim Identity in the Gambia

Notes on Contributors