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David C. Conrad, President, State University of New York-OswegoKassim Kone, Vice-President, State University of New Y ork-Cortland

Rosa DeJorio, Secretary-Treasurer, University of North FloridaJan Jansen, Treasurer Europe, Leiden University

Advisory BoardMohamed Saidou N'Daou, Chicago State UniversiyTereba Togola, Ministry of Culture and.Tourism, BamakoDonald R Wright. State University of New York-Cortland

MANSA Dues Structure Changed to RescueMamie Studies

In MANSA Newsletter 46 (Spring 2001), the leadarticle noted that the journal Mamie Studies wasin jeopardy because there had been fewer thansixty subscribers for the two hundred that wereprinted. At the annual meeting in Houston (seeminutes below), it was decided that the best wayto deal with this problem was to raise the dues toinclude subscriptions to the journal, which costs$15 per issue (and is a great value for themoney). Therefore, as of 16 November, 2001,the MANSA dues structure is as follows:Regular membership, $25.00, sponsoringmembership $40.00. Student members willcontinue to pay $5.00, with the option ofpurchasing the journal if desired.

Minutes of the Annual MANSA Meeting

The l(ih annual meeting of the Mande StudiesAssociation was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotelin Houston, Texas on Friday, 16 November, 9-10a.m. Those present were Akare John Aden,Laura Arntson, Ralph Austen, Stephen Belcher,Sarah Brett-Smith, David Conrad, Edda Fields,Maria Grosz-Ngate, Walther Hawthorne, DavidHenige, Allen Howard, Jan Jansen, MichelleJohnson, Candace Keller, Barbara Lewis, EmilyOsborn, Heather Maxwell, Patrick McNaughton,Dianne Oyler, Jeanne Toungara, Craig Tower,Richard Warms, and Stephen Wooten.

As usual, the meeting began with the annual

Mary Jo Arnoldi. Smithsonian InstituteAlma Gottlieb, University of lllinoisPatrick Mc.."aughton.lndiana University

business report by the Secretary- Treasurer,Stephen Wooten. He reported that for the periodNovember 11,2000 to November 13, 2001, wepaid out $2,295: "Approximately half of thisfigure reflects the cost of newsletter productionand mailing. The other half represents paymentsto the African Studies Program at the Universityof Wisconsin for copies of Mande Studiesdestined for complimentary distribution in WestAfrica. "Wooten reported, moreover, that ourmembership records include 359 individuals orinstitutions (current, sponsored, and/or lapsed),up twenty-nine from the previous period. Of thatnumber, only 166 are actually current members,i.e., with dues paid. We now have a total ofeighty-two sponsored members (up seven fromthe previous period), and a total of thirteeninstitutional memberships (up one). There is atotal of ninety-six lapsed memberships, i.e.,people who have stopped paying dues or havelost contact (up twenty-two from the previousreporting period). Wooten's report concludedwith the information that nineteen new membersjoined the Association (up nine from the lastreporting period), and that seventy-three peoplerenewed their memberships (down from ninety-three).

Following the business report, MANSAPresident David Conrad suggested that the"Treasurer Europe" be established as a regularofficer of the organization. The position wasoriginated and is presently occupied by JanJansen who handles European memberships andsubscriptions to Mamie Studies. A motion wasmade and carried unanimously.

· item of business. the PresidentmllOtmc:ed that after two terms of excellent

ice as Secretary-Treasurer, Stephen Wootennot be seeking reelection to the office.

Conrad's nomination of Rosa Delorio, wasunanimously supported, and DeIorio became thenew Secretary-Treasurer.

The President then announced that BarbaraFrank had officially tendered her resignation asMANSA Vice-President, owing to the imminentarrival of her new baby. The floor was openedfor nominations, and Patrick McNaughtonnominated Kassim Kone. The nomination wasunanimously supported, and Kone became thenew Vice-President.

Conrad noted that Kone's election to the '-Ppost left his spot on the Advisory Board open. .addition to which. the terms of three othermembers were expiring. Maria Grosz-: igsuggested that members e-mail Davi 0nominate people for the Board, theregeneral agreement.

Conrad introduced the idea of restru turingthe dues to include a subscription to the journalMande Studies. He suggested adding the S15subscription fee on to the existing rates.Discussion ensued on rates and on whethersponsored members would receive the journal aswell as whether student memberships shouldrequire journal subscription. It was decided thatdue to the perils of international mail to Africa,local institutions, libraries and archives wouldreceive complimentary copies of the journal byhand courier. It was also decided that studentmembers may elect to add the journal rather thanbeing required to do so. Thus, the following duesstructure was adopted: regular members = $25(including the journal), sponsoring members =$40 (including the journal) and studentmembership remains $5 (without the journal).Students wishing to add the journal may do so bysimply adding $15 for the subscription, for apayment of $20.00. The new rates andsubscription additions were effectiveimmediately.

Regarding the upcoming Fifth InternationalConference on Mande Studies, Conrad reportedthat there had been a very strong response to thecall for papers and panels for the Leidenmeeting. Dutch colleagues have arranged accessto more meeting space at the university, soConrad was still accepting panel and paper

proposals for the time be' g. He itmight be necessary to have some simultaneoussessions this time around however. Jan Jansenannounced that he needed people who wbe attending the conference to contact him ASAPto reserve rooms.

The President next asked for suggestions forMANSA-sponsored panels for ASA 2002 inWashington DC. Sarah Brett-Smith suggestedone on Minyanka-Bamana relations, HeatherMaxwell suggested Mande popular music,Akarie Aden suggested one on powerassociations gone public. Michelle Johnson andPatti • f, • ' ggested one on the

of. luuJ.eStepoen Be reponed that issue #3 is

:} a special section on Samori,,....""' ••.on uleymane Kante and the N'koscript. and also a series of individuallysubmitted papers. Belcher announced that he hascomplimentary copies of issue #2 available forpeople to hand carry to West Africa.

Regarding future plans, Conrad announcedthat colleagues in Guinea are very interested inhosting a Mande Studies conference there in thenext few years. He reported that theinfrastructure in Conakry has developed a greatdeal during the past ten years, and that Conakrymight well be a good site for the nextinternational conference after Leiden.

Allen Howard offered special thanks toStephen Wooten for his service as Secretary-Treasurer, and the group gave a round ofapplause. The meeting was adjourned at about10 o'clock.

Up-Date on MANSA Members' Activities

LAURA ARNTSO ,in her work for Save TheChildren. is on a trip to their Palestine fieldoffice. after which she will go on to Guineawhere she will conduct some backgroundresearch on their child soldiers program inrefugee camps near Albaderia (which happens tobe quite near her 1994 Fulbright research site).ALM-\ GOTTLIEB has been elected Vice-President and President-Elect of the Society forHumanistic Anthropology (a unit of theAmerican Anthropological Association)--two-year term for each position beginning December

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2001. She also received the Outstanding MentorAward, Graduate College, University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign, April 2001.BARBARA HOFFMAN's video Womanhoodand Circumcision: Three Maasai Women HaveTheir Say (see "New Releases" below) receivedthe Society for Visual Anthropology award at theAmerican Anthropological Association meetingsin Washington DC.JAN JANSEN has received a prolongation of hiscontract (until June 2004) as a research fellow ofthe Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts andSciences.CHERIF KEIT A led. for the second time, abetween-semester student nip a program heoriginated, the Carleton College FrancophoneSeminar in Mali. which is affiliated withMamadou Diawaras Point Sud Center forResearch on Local Knowledge.WILLIAM MOSELEY will be leaving hiscurrent position at Northern Illinois Universitythis summer, as he recently accepted a tenuretrack, assistant professor position in theGeography Department at Maca1ester College(St. Paul, MN) starting July 1,2002.

Book, Article, Video, and DissertationReleases

BOOKSDavid C. Conrad. 2002. Somono Bala of theUpper Niger: River People, Charismatic Bards,and Mischievous Music in a West AfricanCulture. Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill. pp. xx +161, map, 2 b&w photos.

de Jong, Willemijn, Mowe, Ilona und ClaudiaRoth (Hg.). 2000. Bilder und Realitatender Geschlechter. Fallstudien zurSozialanthropologie. ZUrich: ArgonautVerlag.

Dorothea Schultz. 2001. Perpetuating thePolitics of Praise: Jeli praise singers, radios andpolitical mediation in Mali. Cologne: RUdigerKOppe.

ARTICLES•. 10 Arnoldi. 2001. "The.Sogow:

T _. g a Moral Universe Through Sogo bo'~'·lasqtM:TaI:Jes- in Jean-Paul Colleyn (ed.),Bamana: The An of Existence in Mali. NewYork: useum for African Art (77-84).

Sarah C. Brett-Smith. 2001. "When is anObject Finished?: The Creation of the InvisibleAmong the Bamana of Mali." RES (Spring): 98-132.

David C. Conrad. 2001. "Pilgrim Fajigi andbasiw from Mecca: Islam and TraditionalReligion in the Former French Sudan" in Jean-Paul Colleyn (ed.), Bamana: The Art ofExistence in Mali. New York: Museum forAfrican Art (25-33).

Kate Ezra. 2001. "Art of the Jo Society" inJean-Paul Colleyn (ed.), Bamana: The Art ofExistence in Mali. New York: Museum forAfrican Art (131-141).

Barbara E. Frank. 2001. "More thanObjects: Bamana Artistry in Iron, Wood, Clay,Leather and Cloth" in Jean-Paul Colleyn (ed.),Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali. NewYork: Museum for African Art (45-51).

Alma Gottlieb. 2000 "A Critical Appraisalof Theories of Menstrual Symbolism" (co-authored with Thomas Buckley), reprinted inGender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (thirdedition), ed. Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F.Sargent. Englewood-Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.

Christian Kordt Hejbjerg. 2001. "InnerIconoclasm: forms of reflexivity in Lorna ritualsof sacrifice. Social Anthropology 10:57-75.

Patrick McNaughton. 2001. "The Kama" inJean-Paul Colleyn (ed.), Bamana: The Art ofExistence in Mali. New York: Museum forAfrican Art (175-183).

Claudia Roth. 2000. Der unerfullteHeiratswunsch. Erzahlungen einer jungenFrau in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. In: W. deJong, 1.Mowe, C. Roth (Hg.). Bilder undRealitaten der Geschlechter. Fallstudien zurSozialanthropologie. ZUrich: Argonaut Verlag.S. 155?l76.

Dorothea Schultz. 2000. "Muslim women'sassociations, mass media, and morals in urbanMali." Institute of the Study of Islam in theModern World. ISIM Newsletter 6: (27 October).

Dorothea Schultz. 2001. Music videos andthe effeminate vices of pop culture in Mali."Africa 71 (3).

Dorothea Schultz2001. "Posen des Prestiges.Zur Theatralisierung von Regierungsgewalt inder malischen Offentlichkeit" in Soeffner,Werner; Tanzler, Dirk (eds.) Figurative Politik.Leverkusen: Leske & Budrich.

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VIDEOSBarbara Hoffman. 2001. Womanhood andCircumcision: Three Maasai Women Have TheirSay. Cleveland State University: VisualAnthropology Center, Department ofAnthropology.Synopsis: a young married Maasai woman talkswith Hoffman about the importance of excisionin her life, then introduces her to the woman'syounger sister who is about to undergo theprocedure. The girl has witnessed "circumcision"of girls before; nonetheless, she is eager in manyways to have her day in the spotlight. We see herbefore and after (but not during) the surgery. Herpoint of view is made evident to us through herfacial expressions and body language. WhenHoffman talks with the mother of the girls, nowpost-menopausal, about the experiences ofcircumcision and childbirth in her own life aswell as that of her daughters, the depth of adiachronic perspective is brought to bear.For distribution information contact BarbaraHoffman, Cleveland OH 44114 (USA) phone:2166873549; fax: 2166879384; e-mailb.hoffman@csuohio.edu.

DISSERTATIONWilliam G. Moseley. 2001. -Sabelian 'WhiteGold' and Rural Poverty-EnvironmentInteractions: The Political Ecology of CottonProduction, Environmental Change. andHousehold Food Economy in Mali:' Universityof Georgia, Department of Geography.

New & Renewed MANSA Iembers& Address Changes

NEW MEMBERS

AFRICANA COLLECTION, Yale University.317 Sterling Memorial Library, P.O. Box208240, New Haven, CT. 06520-8240AKARE JOHN ADEN, P.O. Box 1116.Crawfordsville, IN 47933, Tel.: 765-359-1723;e-mail: adenj@wabash.eduInterests: Komo; Segu; history.MALADHO SIDDY BALDE, Departementd'Histoire Universite de Conakry, B.P. 1147Conakry, Guinee, Tel.: 012 69 4384; e-mail:msbalde@hotmail.comInterests: History of the Rio Pongo.

DINIE BOUMAN, Emrnastraat 15/C21O9722 EW Groningen. Tel: +31.50.5269823Affiliation, CNWS, University of LeidenANNEKE BREEDVELDM Schubertlaan 1432324 CS Leiden tel: +31.71.5120380e-mail: j.o.breedveld@freeler.nlLOUIS BRENNER, Africa Department SOASThomhaugh Street, Russell SquareLondon WCIH OXG [+44] (0)2078984365Fax: [+44] (0)2078984399 e-mail:Ib2@soas.ac.ukBRANDON COUNTY, c/o Public AffairsSection, U.S. Dept. of State, 2050 BamakoPlace, Washington, DC 20521-2050; Tel.: 440-774-3611; e-mail:brandon.county@alumni.carleton.eduInterests: Perceptions of history in modem Mali;urban history; memory and political change;Mande views of society.MARIE YVONNE CURTIS BP 3423 Conakry,Republique de Guinee, West Africa. Tel: 013 406544 (Cell phone in Conakry) 224406544(from outside the country).mycurtis@hotmail.comMAMADOU DIAN CHERIF DIALLO,Departement d'Histoire, Universite de Conakry,BP 1147 Conakry, Republique de Guineediancherif@hotmail.comNICHOLAS HOCKIN, 266 Pine St,Middletm ••..n. cr 06457; Tel. (860) 865 7511; e-mail: hhockin@wesleyan.eduAffiliation: Wesleyan UniversityInterests: Ethnomusicology/ Anthropology,jenbe drumming in BamakoTATIANA NIKITINA, Kirochnaya ul18 kv 7St Petersburg 191028, Russia. Tel.: 7-812-2732928; e-mail: tanya@tn6201.spb.eduAffiliation: Saint Petersburg State UniversityInterests: Wan linguistics.MOJCA PISKOR, Ivana Svraca 1010 290Zapresic, CROATIA Affiliation: Institute ofEthnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb.Research interests: music & gender - differentaspects of identity, status and role offemale musicians of West Africa (especiallyGambia), changes of tradition (relations betweengriot and non-griot musicians), reception ofAfrican musics in Croatia.MAMADOU SAMAKE, Musee Nationale,Section A-V, B.P. 159, Bamako, MALI nterests:Youth association masquerades; videography.

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MARC SCHAFFER, 7 Wenark Drive, Apt. 3Newark. DE 19713, Tel.: 302-286-0641; e-mail:vdub@udel.eduAffiliation: University of DelawareInterests: West African music and outreachprograms.MAMADOU TANGARA c/o PADEF, 2 HillStreet, P.O. Box 549, Banjul, The Gambiamodoutangara@excite.comAffiliation: University of The GambiaABOUBACAR TOURE, B.P. 6350,Conakry, Guinee. Tel.: 012 69 5163: e-mail:toureabou ba@hotmail.comAffiliation: Departement d'Histoire Universite deConakry. Interests: Islam dans le Moria(Guinee); les migrations des populationsguineennes.BAKARY TRAORE, sic Eric Traore, 03 B.P.7098 , Ouagadougou 03. Burkina Faso. Tel: 20-37-64; e-mail: baktraor@bf.refer.orgJOE WILLIAMS, 227 6th St. NE, College Park,MD. Tel.: 202-543-2839: e-rnail:noveywilliams@holIDail.comInterests: Improvisation among Mande balaplayers.

ADDRESS CHANGES & UPDATES

GERALD GAILLARD, 41 bd Clemenceau,Hem 59-510, FRANCE. Tel.: 33-0-20-80-27-36;e-mail: gerald.gaillard@univ-lillel.frTHOMAS A. HALE, French Department,325 Burrowes Building, Pennyslvania StateUniversity, University Park, PA 16802LANSINE KABA, Department of African-American Studies (MC 069), 601 South MorganStreet, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7112; Tel.: (312)996-4676; Fax: (312) 996-5799; e-rnail:lkaba@uic.eduSHIGEKO IZUMI-SHEARER, 3-7-2-703 WPMusashikoyama II, Koyama, ShinagawaTokyo, Japan 142-0062; e-mail: GY3S-IZM@asahi-net.or.jpDANIEL REED, Archives of Traditional MusicMorrison Hall 117, Indiana UniversityBloomington, IN 47405Tel.: 812-855-8634; e-rnail: reedd@indiana.eduSTANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESAttn. Karen FungGreen Library SSRC 121Stanford, CA 94305-6004RED TOBIN, The Lodge, CuI na Coille,Glenealy, Co. Wicklow, Rep. ofIreland

E-MAIL UPDATES & CHANGESMaladho Siddy Balde = msbalde@hotmail.comBah Diakite = bah_diakite@yahoo.frPaul Folmer = paulfolmer@freeler.nlBarbara Hoffman = b.hoffman@csuohio.eduMariam Keita = CRI@earthling.netSamuel Sidibe = musee@malinet.mlBakary Traore = baktraor@bf.refer.orgDiala Toure = hremch@cs.comAboubakar Toure = toureabouba@hotmail.com

RENEWALSRalph Austen (sponsor)Rogier BedeauxHerbert BraunSarah Brett-Smith (sponsor)George BrooksCarla de BruinStephen BulmanVictoria Coifman (sponsor)David Conrad (sponsor)Elizabeth den OtterAly DrameGerard DumestreEdda FieldsPaul FolmerBarbara Frank (sponsor)Gerard GaillardAlma GottliebMaria Grosz-NgateThomas HaleEugenia HerbertNicolas HopkinsJan JansenMarloes JansonMichelle JohnsonWilliam JohnsonManya JordansLansine Kaba (sponsor)Lilyan KestlelootAnne Moseng KnutsenDolores Koenig (sponsor)Joseph LauerBaz LecocqFiona McLaughlin (sponsor)Robert LaunayNehemia LevtzionBarbara Lewis (sponsor)Peter Mark (sponsor)Pekka MasonenSusan McIntoshMarie MiranWilliam Moseley

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Diane OylerBarbara PolakRainer PolakDaniel ReedClaudia RothTal TamariBerend TimmerRed TobinJeanne Toungara (sponsor)Craig TowerNancy Van Eps

Submitting Articles toMANDE STUDIES

The journal of the Mande Studies AssocianonMande Studies welcomes arti les 0 allof the Mande world and the peoplesthat compose it. Submissions will be peer-reviewed before acceptance. The .accept and publish manuscripts in Eng .French.

Manuscript submissions should betypewritten or computer-printed in double-spacing, and should be accompanied, if possi e.with an electronic version of the text on adiskette (IBM/MS-DOS; Mac texts should besent bye-mail). Authors must furnish any mapsor illustrations in hard copy suitable forreproduction, and are responsible for obtainingany necessary permission.

Colleagues from Africa without access tocomputers should send a typewritten manuscript,keeping a copy for their own use.

Submissions may be made electronicallyto Ariane Deluz (Ariane.Deluz@ehess.fr) or toStephen Belcher (spbelcher@mindspring.com);manuscript submissions should be sent toStephen Belcher (R.D. 1 Box 1000, PetersburgPA, 16669 USA). In the case of electronicsubmissions, the text should be sent as anattachment and not in the body of the message.The preferred format, if not WordPerfect orMicrosoft Word, is as a 'rich text file' (suffix:.rtf).

La revue Etudes Mande invite noscollegues a presenter des contributions portantsur tous les aspects du monde man de et despeuples et des cultures qui Ie composent. Lesarticles proposes seront evalues anonymementavant d'etre retenus. La revue accepte et publiedes articles en anglais ou en francais.

Les manuscrits soumis doivent etre saisisou imprirnes sur ordinateur en double interligne,et devraient s'accompagner si possible de laversion electronique du texte sur disquette(format IBM/MS-Dos). Les textes composes surMacintosh doivent nous parvenir commesfichiers attaches a un email. Les auteurs sontpries de fournir leurs cartes et illustrations surpapier, d'une qualite permettant la reproduction.Il est de la responsabilite des auteurs d' obtenirtoute permission necessaire pour la reproduction.

os collegues en Afrique d'ayant pas, a un ordinateur sont pries d'envoyer unuscrit dactylographie, et de conserver un"me exemplaire pour leur propre usage.

Les articles peuvent etre soumis par voie&cm:>OKJlIe a Ariane DeluzAriaae.DeIuz@ehess.fr) ou a Stephen Belcher(SilIbeIcbIer1@mindspring.com); les manuscritsOO,T3Ieut em: addresses a Stephen Belcher (R.D.

• Petersburg PA, 16669 -- USA).. les envoyes par email.Je

u<ouuu 1""" em: envoye dans le message, au mail. Le format

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The Secre -;Treasurer. Rosa Delorio, hasincluded the 0110 - g signals on your addresslabels: If the dare i highlighted in yellow itmeans "time 0 rene .- A red check-mark besidethe date means you are overdue. and this is yourlast newsletter until :00 do renew.

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Jo~_ - A and Renewing Membership

ve institutional membership $25,

spoesormg membership $40, students $5 (regularsponsoring membership includes

sabscnption to the journal Mande Studies). Makeout to MANSA and (if you are joining)

send your institutional affiliation and a briefdescription of your research interests to: RosaDeJorio, Department of SACJ, University of

orth Florida, 4567 St. Johns Bluff Road, SouthJacksonville, FI 32224-2666. Members (otherthan sponsored African colleagues) will find thedate on which their present membership expiresrecorded on their address labels. The Secretary-Treasurer will forward your up-dated addressand research information to the President forpublication in the newsletter. European membersmay submit their dues to the MANSA TreasurerEurope: Jan Jansen, Winnubst laan 13, 3533 EAUtrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail:jansenj@fsw.\eidenuniv.nl

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