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Paperback. Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - En présentant une perspective sud-orientale et matrifocale sur le Kaabu (16e - 19e siècle), Les mémoires de Maala? Galisa, éditées et commentées par Cornelia Giesing et Denis Creissels, complètent d'autres versions 'patriarcales' orientées sur le modèle de l'épopée de Sunjata.The Mémoires of Maala? Galisa, edited and commented by Cornelia Giesing et Denis Creissels, offer a south-eastern and often matrifocal viewpoint on the state of Kaabu (16th - 19th centuries A.D.) as a counterpart to other versions moulded after the Sunjata Epic.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cette première édition critique d'un manuscrit écrit en arabe et mandinka focalise l'importance des communautés mandinka et jakhanké dans la construction et la préservation de la mémoire collective de l' 'empire' païen du Kaabu en Sénégambie. This is the very first scholarly publication of an arabographic manuscript in Mandinka language revealing also the importance of the Mandinka and Jakhanka clerical diaspora in the making of the history of the pagan 'empire' of Kaabu in the Senegambia.

orig. wrappers. Zustand: Minor rubbing. VG. Textual photos,maps, charts (illustrator). 24x16cm, xxii,398 pp., Series: African Sources for African History, Vol. 9. Texts in Mandinka and Arabic with French translations and commentary; Editors' introduction in English. Contents: Les versions du texte et leur transmission écrite et orale; Les versions écrites et orales du "Ta:rikh Mandinka" présentées en colonnes; Sujets mythiques du "Ta:rikh Mandinka" ( interprétations et commentaires comparés); Contextes de production et de transmission des livres de Bijini: historiographie et discours social dans un village musulman au pays des "Sòoninkee" du Kaabu et du Badoors ["This volume presents a hitherto unpublished manuscript written in Arabic and Mandinka from the muslim village of Bijini in Guinea-Bissau, the "Ta:rikh Mandinka", a unique and structured compilation unfolding the pagan "empire"of Kaabu from it's mythical beginnings to it's downfall in the nineteenth- century. Two existing manuscript versions and several oral interpretations of the "Ta:rikh" are reproduced, transcribed, translated, compared and analysed considering philological, historical and social- anthropological issues (chaps. 1-3). The fourth chapter deals with the clerical community of Bijini as a place of knowledge-transfer in it's local setting and within regional networks. The focus of the book is on the importance of the Mandinka and Jakhanka clerical diaspora in the making of the history of the Sooninkee "empire" of Kaabu in Senegambia. The volume contains a glossary of names and terms mentioned in the sources and is illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings" - Publisher's description].