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Masquerades of Modernity - Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal (Hardcover)
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Masquerades of Modernity - Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal (Hardcover)
Series: International African Library, No. 36
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How do those on the margins of modernity face the challenges of
globalization? This book demonstrates that secrecy is one of the
means by which a society on the fringe of modernity produces itself
as locality. Focusing on initiation rituals, masked performances
and modern art, this study shows that rituals and performances long
deemed obsolete, serve the insertion of their performers in the
world at their own terms. The Jola and Mandinko people of the
Casamance region in Senegal have always used their rituals and
performances to incorporate the impact of Islam, colonialism,
capitalism, and contemporary politics. Their performances of
secrecy have accommodated these modern powers and continue to do so
today. The performers incorporate the modern and redefine modernity
through secretive practices. Their traditions are not modern
inventions, but traditional ways of dealing with modernity. This
book will interest anthropologists, historians, political
scientists and all those studying how globalisation affects
peripheral societies. It shows that secrecy, performed as a weapon
of the weak, empowers their performers. Secrecy serves to mark
boundaries and define the local in the global.
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