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- catalog abstract "This groundbreaking book explores the history and the cultural context of family claims to power in Bamako, located in modern-day Mali in West Africa. Perinbam argues that these families manipulated traditional belief systems (including myth, ritual, and ancestral legends) in the quest for political power, economic success, and social status. As a result, Perinbam offers new insights into the processes of Mande social history.".
- catalog contributor b10169944.
- catalog coverage "Bamako (Mali) Politics and government.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "1. How Identities Are Formed: The Manipulation of Myths and Cultural Signs -- 2. Material Elaborations of "The Mande Style" -- 3. "The Family (Is) the Pivot of Sudanese Societies, the Center of All Organization": The Bamako Kafu and Mande States -- 4. Commerce and Markets "in the Mande Style" -- 5. "Bamako Was Not as ... We Hade Supposed"; Bamako Was Not a "Nothing Country" -- Conclusion: Bamako's "French" Identity or How Identities Are Formed Revisited -- Appendix. Maps of Western Africa.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This groundbreaking book explores the history and the cultural context of family claims to power in Bamako, located in modern-day Mali in West Africa. Perinbam argues that these families manipulated traditional belief systems (including myth, ritual, and ancestral legends) in the quest for political power, economic success, and social status. As a result, Perinbam offers new insights into the processes of Mande social history.".
- catalog extent "x, 341 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Family identity and the state in the Bamako Kafu, c.1800-c.1900 \.".
- catalog identifier "0813330807 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Family identity and the state in the Bamako Kafu, c.1800-c.1900 \.".
- catalog isPartOf "African states and societies in history".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boulder, CO : Westview Press,".
- catalog relation "Family identity and the state in the Bamako Kafu, c.1800-c.1900 \.".
- catalog spatial "Bamako (Mali) Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Mali Bamako.".
- catalog subject "305.896/345 21".
- catalog subject "Bambara (African people) Ethnic identity.".
- catalog subject "Bambara (African people) Kinship.".
- catalog subject "DT551.45.M36 P47 1997".
- catalog subject "Legends Mali Bamako.".
- catalog subject "Mandingo (African people) Ethnic identity.".
- catalog subject "Mandingo (African people) Kinship.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. How Identities Are Formed: The Manipulation of Myths and Cultural Signs -- 2. Material Elaborations of "The Mande Style" -- 3. "The Family (Is) the Pivot of Sudanese Societies, the Center of All Organization": The Bamako Kafu and Mande States -- 4. Commerce and Markets "in the Mande Style" -- 5. "Bamako Was Not as ... We Hade Supposed"; Bamako Was Not a "Nothing Country" -- Conclusion: Bamako's "French" Identity or How Identities Are Formed Revisited -- Appendix. Maps of Western Africa.".
- catalog title "Family identity and the state in the Bamako Kafu, c.1800-c.1900 / B. Marie Perinbam.".
- catalog type "text".