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Since the early 1990s, Mande hunters' associations in Côte d'Ivoire have become a national, anti-crime force even as members maintain their regional roles as hunters, healers, and sorcerers. Hunters have done so in accordance with a repertoire of ritual narratives, sacrifices, a…

My work in Comparative Literary Studies and French explores the link between the Mande oral tradition and its literature to reveal the presence and absence of the griots' words and their portrayal in the novel. Authors Amadou Hampaté Bâ (L'Étrange Destin de Wangrin ); Massa Maka…

This dissertation presents an ethnography of the ways in which an ideology and practices of "paying attention" (kolosi in Bamana and Maninka) pervade modes of sociality, knowing, and being among contemporary rural Muslims living in the Mande region of Mali, between Bamako and th…