Persons of Courage and Renown - Tuareg Actors, Acting, Plays, and Cultural Memory in Northern Mali (Hardcover)

Persons of Courage and Renown is theoretically-engaged ethnography by a social/cultural anthropologist that explores issues of culture, memory, creativity, and power by analyzing beloved, but also vulnerable, actors, acting, and play performances in Tamajaq-speaking, predominantly Muslim, traditionally stratified, and semi-nomadic Tuareg communities in northern Mali. The town and region of Kidal are the primary sites of field research. This book traces how Tuareg actors powerfully negotiate cultural memory and encounters in communities caught historically and currently between political violence and peacekeeping efforts in northern Mali. There, urban, state, and non-governmental bureaucracies seek to re-shape Tuareg verbal art performances to comply with official agendas aimed at transforming local culture. This book shows how acting and plays are crucial in continuing, but also debating and re-defining the meanings of older verbal art performances of Tuareg tales, songs, and epics, as well as wider cultural knowledge and social practice. Their arts offer important possibilities for peacemaking in a turbulent and unpredictable world.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2019
Authors:	Susan Rasmussen
Dimensions:	229 x 160 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-8257-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
LSN:	1-4985-8257-5
Barcode:	9781498582575

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