Jan Jansen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 112404 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jan Jansen |
| NOMBRES | Jan |
| APELLIDO | Jansen |
| FIRMA | JANSEN J |
| AFILIACIONES | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2277-0586 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Developing Essential Biodiversity Variables for the Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean is central to global heat and carbon cycling, connecting all the major ocean basins and regulating Earth’s climate system, and hence providing ecosystem services of global significance. However, its ecosystems are increasingly vulnerable to climate change and localized human-induced pressures, such as (biological) resource extraction, pollution, ship traffic, and tourism. Effective conservation and management require systematic…
Teaching World Epics
This volume results from a carefully managed project and is a most welcome contribution to teaching literature in the (English-language) college classroom. Because epics usually deal with norms, values, politics, and sanctions, and always tell about actions and their consequences, Teaching World Epics may be most useful for classes in literature, history, folklore, anthropology, and area studies. In five thematic parts—each four to seven chapters…
Conflicts of Colonialism
I highly recommend this book, not only for students of French colonialism and Africa's history, but for any historian wishing to explore the extent to which individual creativity and agency are limited by structures and systems, or perhaps even determined by them.This study features the life and deeds of Mademba Sèye, a man born in 1852 in Saint-Louis and educated at the French school there. Mademba became the ruler (faama)—a king for all intents…
Status of ocean observations in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean
One of the largest sectors of the Southern Ocean is the Indian Sector, which plays an important role in regulating the Earth’s climate and supports a diverse ecosystem. To understand how climate change impacts the environment in this sector, ocean observations are collected via various platforms, including conventional ship-based technologies, autonomous instruments (e.g., animal-borne sensors, autonomous underwater vehicles, and profiling floats…
Teaming up with termites—Appraising termites’ contributions to earth technologies in West Africa
This essay explores the role and impact of termites in the social and cultural history of West Africa. It proposes an integrated understanding of a wide range of hitherto symbolically or metaphorically understood practices related to the mining of iron and gold, iron production, agriculture, health, wood carving and pottery, as well as to creation myths and the Sunjata epic
The Mande Creation Myth, by Germaine Dieterlen, as a Historical Source for the Mali Empire
This article proposes a new reading for Germaine Dieterlen’s classic text “The Mande Creation Myth,” and presents it as evidence for Kangaba’s prominent military role as ruler of the Niger and defender of the gold mines that for centuries provided the wealth of the Mali Empire. It is demonstrated that, although Dieterlen was in search of a unified cosmology, her informants in Kangaba provided answers that voiced Kangaba’s military concerns and cl…
Divination's Grasp
Ebola
"Ebola: How a People’s Science Helped End an Epidemic." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 51(3), pp. 460–461
Sunjata
The Sunjata epic is an excellent source for studying and teaching African literature, oral literature, performance and theatre, history, and oral tradition. It is most often taught using Djibril T
When Marrying a Muslim
This study analyzes the marriage patterns in accounts of ‘founder strangers’ and ‘first-comers’. By telling whether and when a child from a marriage between a Muslim and a warrior was successful or not, the accounts reveal the social code of the political elites in the Western Sudan in the period c. 1600– c. 1850. This social code expressed the elites’ concern with legitimizing their political autonomy as well as with reproducing their ruling pos…
In Defense of Mali’s Gold
This analysis offers a compelling alternative to the received wisdom that the Mali Empire had dissolved by the end of the seventeenth century. It will be demonstrated that between 1650 and 1850, to the north of the gold fields of the Mali Empire the rulers of Kangaba successfully managed a defense zone. Using military and organizational innovations attributed to polities east of the Niger River (Kong, Segu [Ségou], Kano), they fused the political…
The Mise en Valeur of the Gold Mines in the Haut-Niger, 1918–1939
Cet article porte sur l’orpaillage artisanal pratiqué dans les régions minières anciennes du Bouré et du Bambouk à travers la description des effets des politiques d’optimisation des pratiques d’exploitation aurifère précoloniales mises en place par l’administration coloniale française. Les rouages de l’alternance saisonnière entre agriculture et orpaillage dans la vie sociale de cette région ouest-africaine y sont décrits. L’on analyse ainsi les…
Literacy's Feedback on Historical Analysis Revisited
During the course of a long and fruitful career as an historian and librarian, David Henige has made major contributions to the development of the field of African history, as well as to the historical profession in general. His insistence that historians reflect carefully on how they collect, sample and analyze their data, and the lucid way in which he has written about the historian's craft, has not only helped to remind us historians of import…
The Intimacy of Belonging
Literacy is a personally acquired skill, and the way it is taught to a person changes how that person thinks. Thanks to David Henige historians of Africa are much more aware of how literacy influences memory and historical imagination, and particularly how literacy systems introduce linear concepts of time and space. This essay will deal with these two aspects in relation to Africa's most famous epic: Sunjata. This epic has gained a major literar…
Éducation arithmétique sous forme d' apprentissage. La géomancie dans les Monts Mandingues
Cet article introduit un cheminement d' apprentissage formalisé de géomancie. L' apprentissage démontre, contre ce que les théories proposent, qu' un enseignement arithmétique standardisé peut exister dans une société qui n' a développé aucun système mathématique, qui est à peine alphabétisée, et dans laquelle l' écriture est surtout une technologie dont on a besoin pour la reproduction des textes religieux et non pas pour l' organisation de la s…
The Next Step for a Journal of Method
For over thirty years, History in Africa: A Journal of Method has been at the forefront of publishing scholarship on textual analysis and criticism of African historical sources, historiographical essays on the literature concerning Africa's past, bibliographical essays on relevant historical topics, reflections on the role of theory in historical investigation, and archive reports. The new editorial team will maintain this profile with an emphas…
Local Preservation, National Demolition, International Publication
The Ta:rikh Mandinka from Bijini has been published in a classical format (as a monograph in Brill's African Sources for African History Series ), but the publishing process of this book was rather extraordinary. This note on the publication serves as an instructive (and encouraging) account for all who work on the documentation and publication of African historical sources. Our “Bijini Experience” illustrates how literate and script-loving perso…
Framing Divination
This essay describes the skills of a sand divination expert in Mali through consideration of his expert performance. By relating the description of the expert to Goffman's sociology, it is argued that, in addition to his skilled divination techniques, an expert diviner should be capable of establishing and maintaining the frame of his performance. In the case of the expert described in this essay, it is demonstrated that this frame encompasses a …
From Guild to Rotary
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Entretiens avec Bala Kanté
This book is a bilingual (Maninkakan [ Malinké] - French) presentation of narratives by an old blacksmith, Bala Kanté. The narratives are strikingly coherent in the sense that they use use indigenous models for historic causation to recount of the changes Mali has gone through in the 20th century. Though the narratives often recount well-known oral traditions, Bala Kanté embeds them in an argument which is highly original. Hence, the texts are of…
Habitation and Warfare Strategies in 19th Century Mande—a View from the Kafu
You researchere must realize that our kingdoms were all different." 1 ' Ouenla, Wanda, or Wonda (Mungo Park) are the same People on and along the mountains relcr lo Wanda
Les griots de Kéla
Sources and Methods in African History
An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is…
Siramori Diabate
Les secrets du Manding
Kangaba (auparavant Kaaba) est un village d'environ 5 000 habitants, situe a 95 kilomètres au sud de Bamako, au bord du fleuve Niger En 1880 Kangaba avait environ l 000 habitants 2 Un exemple du prestige du Kamabolon et de Kangaba est fourm par Ie hvre redige par Traore (1994) resultat d'un projet appelle Le Caravane , voyage orgamse pour donner aux jeunes de Bamako la possibilite d'etudier leurs ongines De plus, la visite au Kamabolon semble obh…
The Younger Brother and the Stranger
This article examines different categories of expression (genealogies, family histories, themes from the Sunjata epic, principles of segmentation, labour division) in Mande, and proves that they ail develop along lines of predictability, and are therefore products of the same discourse, lt is argued that genealogies are artificial kinship constructions which represent status daims. Any genealogy in Mande is operative only in a specifie context, a…
Griots at War
Power and Paradox: Griots and Mande Social Organization 2. In the Hands of Speech: Mande Discourse 3. A History of Fadenya: Interpretations of the Kita Griot War 4. Making Boundaries: When Griots Speak Before Nobles 5. Breaking Boundaries: When Nobles Speak Before Griots 6. The Healer Who Is Ill must Swallow His Own Saliva: When Griots Speak to Griots 7. Caste, Mande Style Epilogue: A Wound Cannot Heal on Pus Notes Bibliography Index
The Mise en Valeur of the Gold Mines in the Haut-Niger, 1918–1939
Cet article porte sur l’orpaillage artisanal pratiqué dans les régions minières anciennes du Bouré et du Bambouk à travers la description des effets des politiques d’optimisation des pratiques d’exploitation aurifère précoloniales mises en place par l’administration coloniale française. Les rouages de l’alternance saisonnière entre agriculture et orpaillage dans la vie sociale de cette région ouest-africaine y sont décrits. L’on analyse ainsi les…
Hot Issues
Every seven years the Kamabolon, a sanctuary in the form of a traditional mud hut, is restored and reroofed m Kangaba dunng a famous ceremony that some even consider to be "the official focus of Mandenka traditional rituals "' Part of this ceremony is the recitation of the Mansa Jigm ("the gathenng of the kmgs"), the narrative that has gained fame m Afncan literature as "the Sunjata epic " This recitation takes place in the sanctuary, and is acce…
History, Oral Transmission and Structure in Ibn Khaldun's Chronology of Mali Rulers
The early history of the Mali empire is known to us from two sources: Mande oral literature (epic and praise poetry) recorded over the last 100 years and Ibn Khaldun's Kitab al-ʿIbar (Book of Exemplars) written in the late four-teenth century. The list of Mali kings presented by Ibn Khaldun is precise, detailed, entirely plausible, and recorded not too long after the events it purports to describe. For scholars attempting to reconstruct an accoun…
Framing Divination
This essay describes the skills of a sand divination expert in Mali through consideration of his expert performance. By relating the description of the expert to Goffman's sociology, it is argued that, in addition to his skilled divination techniques, an expert diviner should be capable of establishing and maintaining the frame of his performance. In the case of the expert described in this essay, it is demonstrated that this frame encompasses a …
The Intimacy of Belonging
Literacy is a personally acquired skill, and the way it is taught to a person changes how that person thinks. Thanks to David Henige historians of Africa are much more aware of how literacy influences memory and historical imagination, and particularly how literacy systems introduce linear concepts of time and space. This essay will deal with these two aspects in relation to Africa's most famous epic: Sunjata. This epic has gained a major literar…
In Defense of Mali’s Gold
This analysis offers a compelling alternative to the received wisdom that the Mali Empire had dissolved by the end of the seventeenth century. It will be demonstrated that between 1650 and 1850, to the north of the gold fields of the Mali Empire the rulers of Kangaba successfully managed a defense zone. Using military and organizational innovations attributed to polities east of the Niger River (Kong, Segu [Ségou], Kano), they fused the political…
Masking Sunjata
Among the rich legacy of African oral traditions, the Sunjata epic is still one of the most complex phenonema, because it undoubtedly goes back to the times of Ibn Battuta, because of the limited variety between the available text editions, and because of its present-day popularity in sub-Saharan West Africa among people of all kinds of social background. In scholarly discussion, the epic has challenged many academics since Delafosse used the Sun…
La mission Griaule à Kangaba (Mali)
Le livre de Solange de Ganay est un document historique fascinant, non pas tant pour l'étude du Kamabolon, ni pour celle de la culture mandingue, mais important pour l'histoire de l'ethnographie griaulienne laquelle a marqué l'ancienne ethnographie du Mali. Cette ethnographie décrite par S. de Ganay reflète le projet ethnographique de Marcel Griaule, pour qui la recherche sur le terrain est vue comme une campagne « militaire » : l'ethnographie es…
Sunjata
The Sunjata epic is an excellent source for studying and teaching African literature, oral literature, performance and theatre, history, and oral tradition. It is most often taught using Djibril T
A Critical Note on “The Epic of Samori Toure”
Samori Toure (d. 1900) is celebrated, both in written history and oral tradition, in Mali and Guinea because of the empire he founded and his fierce resistance against the French, as they sought to occupy their future colony of the French Sudan. Recently published anthologies of African epic (Johnson/Hale/Belcher 1997; Kesteloot/Dieng 1997; Belcher 1999) attest that an orally transmitted Samori epic exists in these countries. In this paper the te…
The Representation of Status in Mande
For the reconstruction of the history of the aftermath of the Mali empire, that is, the period 1500-1800, oral traditions are the only source of information. The history of this period has been reconstructed by Person and Niane. Their work has gained widespread acceptance. In this paper I will argue that these scholars made significant methodological errors-in particular, in interpreting chronology in genealogies, and their reading of stories abo…
When Marrying a Muslim
This study analyzes the marriage patterns in accounts of ‘founder strangers’ and ‘first-comers’. By telling whether and when a child from a marriage between a Muslim and a warrior was successful or not, the accounts reveal the social code of the political elites in the Western Sudan in the period c. 1600– c. 1850. This social code expressed the elites’ concern with legitimizing their political autonomy as well as with reproducing their ruling pos…
From Guild to Rotary
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Community versus network on the commodification of cows in the Mande mountains (Mali - Guinea)1
This article describes new manifestations of communal labour in the mountainous Sobara region, 80 kilometers southwest of Mali's capital Bamako, as a management strategy to cope with – and to take advantage of – rapid agricultural transformation and monetarisation of the economy. Traditionally, the format of the sansène, was a period of three or four days of communal labour. Nowadays it is used in this area as an organisational format to deal wit…
Epopee, Histoire, Societe
Les Castes de l'Afrique Occidentale. Artisans et musiciens endogames
Polities and Political Discourse
Stephan Bühnen has applied some of my ideas to a wider region than southwestern Mali, and shown that the principles of Mande status discourse make possible new interpretations on sources and political processes in the entire West African Sudan. Inspired by Bühnen's analysis, I am convinced that the principles of Mande status discourse may shed light on various processes, varying from political struggles between families to the construction of con…
Polities and Political Discourse
Stephan Bühnen has applied some of my ideas to a wider region than southwestern Mali, and shown that the principles of Mande status discourse make possible new interpretations on sources and political processes in the entire West African Sudan. Inspired by Bühnen's analysis, I am convinced that the principles of Mande status discourse may shed light on various processes, varying from political struggles between families to the construction of con…
History, Oral Transmission and Structure in Ibn Khaldun's Chronology of Mali Rulers
The early history of the Mali empire is known to us from two sources: Mande oral literature (epic and praise poetry) recorded over the last 100 years and Ibn Khaldun's Kitab al-ʿIbar (Book of Exemplars) written in the late four-teenth century. The list of Mali kings presented by Ibn Khaldun is precise, detailed, entirely plausible, and recorded not too long after the events it purports to describe. For scholars attempting to reconstruct an accoun…
The Representation of Status in Mande
For the reconstruction of the history of the aftermath of the Mali empire, that is, the period 1500-1800, oral traditions are the only source of information. The history of this period has been reconstructed by Person and Niane. Their work has gained widespread acceptance. In this paper I will argue that these scholars made significant methodological errors-in particular, in interpreting chronology in genealogies, and their reading of stories abo…
The Younger Brother and the Stranger
This article examines different categories of expression (genealogies, family histories, themes from the Sunjata epic, principles of segmentation, labour division) in Mande, and proves that they ail develop along lines of predictability, and are therefore products of the same discourse, lt is argued that genealogies are artificial kinship constructions which represent status daims. Any genealogy in Mande is operative only in a specifie context, a…
De Draaiende Put
Griots and Griottes
Introduction Chapter 1, A Job Description for Griots Chapter 2, The Origin of Griots Chapter 3, The Verbal Art of Griots Chapter 4, Music Across the Griot World Chapter 5, The Making of a Griot Chapter 6, Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry One? Chapter 7, Griottes: Unrecognized Female Voices Chapter 8, From the Courtyards of the Nobility to a Global Audience Chapter 9, The Value of Words Chapter 10, New Millenium Griots Appendices References I…
Hot Issues
Every seven years the Kamabolon, a sanctuary in the form of a traditional mud hut, is restored and reroofed m Kangaba dunng a famous ceremony that some even consider to be "the official focus of Mandenka traditional rituals "' Part of this ceremony is the recitation of the Mansa Jigm ("the gathenng of the kmgs"), the narrative that has gained fame m Afncan literature as "the Sunjata epic " This recitation takes place in the sanctuary, and is acce…
Oral Epics from Africa
Johnson, John William, Thomas A. Hale, and Stephen Belcher, eds. 1997. Oral Epics from Africa: Vibrant Voices from a Vast Continent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Les Castes de l'Afrique Occidentale. Artisans et musiciens endogames
Masking Sunjata
Among the rich legacy of African oral traditions, the Sunjata epic is still one of the most complex phenonema, because it undoubtedly goes back to the times of Ibn Battuta, because of the limited variety between the available text editions, and because of its present-day popularity in sub-Saharan West Africa among people of all kinds of social background. In scholarly discussion, the epic has challenged many academics since Delafosse used the Sun…
Retour aux Dogon
L'auteur questionne les matriaux accumuls et mis en forme afin d'en dgager des catgories de faits pertinents pour une perspective d'analyse diffrente. Elle tente d'tablir d'une part, que l'armature idologique dogon, sous-tendue par le principe de dualit, est toujours travaille par la contradicition logique, l'asymtrie, la ngation de l'quivalence des termes travers la prise en compte de l'ge et du sexe eet des conflits qui y rfrent, et d'autre par…
La mission Griaule à Kangaba (Mali)
Le livre de Solange de Ganay est un document historique fascinant, non pas tant pour l'étude du Kamabolon, ni pour celle de la culture mandingue, mais important pour l'histoire de l'ethnographie griaulienne laquelle a marqué l'ancienne ethnographie du Mali. Cette ethnographie décrite par S. de Ganay reflète le projet ethnographique de Marcel Griaule, pour qui la recherche sur le terrain est vue comme une campagne « militaire » : l'ethnographie es…
The Sunjata Epic?The Ultimate Version
Research in African Literatures - Volume 32, Number 1, Spring 2001
The Griot's Craft
Griots at War
Power and Paradox: Griots and Mande Social Organization 2. In the Hands of Speech: Mande Discourse 3. A History of Fadenya: Interpretations of the Kita Griot War 4. Making Boundaries: When Griots Speak Before Nobles 5. Breaking Boundaries: When Nobles Speak Before Griots 6. The Healer Who Is Ill must Swallow His Own Saliva: When Griots Speak to Griots 7. Caste, Mande Style Epilogue: A Wound Cannot Heal on Pus Notes Bibliography Index
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People Are Not the Same
Eric Silla, People are Not the Same: leprosy and identity in twentieth-century Mali. Social History of Africa. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heine-mann, 1998, £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 680 2 hard covers, £15.95, ISBN 0 85255 630 6 paperback. - Volume 71 Issue 3
A Critical Note on “The Epic of Samori Toure”
Samori Toure (d. 1900) is celebrated, both in written history and oral tradition, in Mali and Guinea because of the empire he founded and his fierce resistance against the French, as they sought to occupy their future colony of the French Sudan. Recently published anthologies of African epic (Johnson/Hale/Belcher 1997; Kesteloot/Dieng 1997; Belcher 1999) attest that an orally transmitted Samori epic exists in these countries. In this paper the te…
Community versus network on the commodification of cows in the Mande mountains (Mali - Guinea)1
This article describes new manifestations of communal labour in the mountainous Sobara region, 80 kilometers southwest of Mali's capital Bamako, as a management strategy to cope with – and to take advantage of – rapid agricultural transformation and monetarisation of the economy. Traditionally, the format of the sansène, was a period of three or four days of communal labour. Nowadays it is used in this area as an organisational format to deal wit…
Epopee, Histoire, Societe
Sources and Methods in African History
An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is…
Siramori Diabate
Les secrets du Manding
Kangaba (auparavant Kaaba) est un village d'environ 5 000 habitants, situe a 95 kilomètres au sud de Bamako, au bord du fleuve Niger En 1880 Kangaba avait environ l 000 habitants 2 Un exemple du prestige du Kamabolon et de Kangaba est fourm par Ie hvre redige par Traore (1994) resultat d'un projet appelle Le Caravane , voyage orgamse pour donner aux jeunes de Bamako la possibilite d'etudier leurs ongines De plus, la visite au Kamabolon semble obh…
Les griots de Kéla
Habitation and Warfare Strategies in 19th Century Mande—a View from the Kafu
You researchere must realize that our kingdoms were all different." 1 ' Ouenla, Wanda, or Wonda (Mungo Park) are the same People on and along the mountains relcr lo Wanda
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