Masquerades of modernity : power and secrecy in Casamance, Senegal /

How do those on the margins of modernity face the challenges of globalisation? This title demonstrates that secrecy is one of the means by which a society on the fringe of modernity produces itself as locality.

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Main Author: De Jong, Ferdinand.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, c2007.
Series:International African library ; 36.
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