David C Conrad
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 188871 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David C Conrad |
| NOMBRES | David C |
| APELLIDO | Conrad |
| FIRMA | CONRAD D C |
| AFILIACIONES | State University of New York at Oswego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4699-3426 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Early polities of the Western Sudan
Over the rainbow
The recent launch of Public Health England's ‘Longer Lives’ website (longerlives.phe.org.uk), which compares local authorities’ rates of premature death from the four most common causes of mortality, cast a media spotlight on the nation's stark health inequalities.1 Reducing these inequalities is a clear objective of England's new public health system2 which came into being in April this year. Part of the government's vision for this new system w…
The Freelancer–NGO Alliance
This paper explores the impact that emerging partnerships—particularly between freelancers and nonprofits—are having on the practices of contemporary foreign news reporting. Through an exploration of a widely published project on a health crisis in East Africa—funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and reported by the study's author—this study ultimately argues that issues of framing, representation, and ideology are not dominating for…
Deconstructing the community radio model
Community radio is often theorized as being (1) independent from political and economic influence and (2) a platform for the meaningful engagement of marginalized populations traditionally excluded by its private and commercial cousins. Contrasting this theoretical model against the reality of practice, this study argues that the theorized benefits of community radio are unlikely to be realized given the reality of donor, rather than community, f…
Bold Research During Troubled Times in Guinea
The basic purpose here is to offer an archival report about historical and ethnographic material collected partly in Mali but mostly in Guinea, when such efforts in the latter country were contrary to official government policy and in some cases could be hazardous to undertake. Owing to the risks involved in some intellectual activities in Guinea between 1958 and 1984, as well as the importance of the material recorded on reel-to-reel tapes in th…
From the Banan Tree of Kouroussa
The West African Mande worldview links spiritual elements of myth, legend, and magic to conspicuous landscape features, the functional dimension of which is illuminated by a body of work on “native mapping” by anthropologists looking at Native American peoples. Efforts to interpret the Mande people’s perspective on their own history have focused on the actors and their deeds at the expense of attention to the physical environment in which events …
Compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction among Colorado child protection workers
Reconstructing Oral Tradition
RECONSTRUCTING ORAL TRADITION: SOULEYMANE KANTE'S APPROACH TO WRITING MANDE HISTORY1 David C. Conrad "I have related all the anecdotes and historical narratives which he related ' without applying myself to investigate their truthfulness or to test them. " Ibn Juzayy2 Introduction: Drifting into the World of N'ko In 1994 during an extended research trip to Guinée on which I had no plans to do anything involving Souleymane Kanté or N'ko (with whic…
The Negroland Revisited
Categorizing Artisans and Bards of West Africa
Brégand, Denise. -- Commerce caravanier et relations sociales au Bénin. Les Wangara du Borgou. Paris-Montréal, L'Harmattan, 1998, 272 p., cartes, bibl. (« Sociétés africaines et diaspora »).
The problem of definitively identifying the merchants of sub-Saharan West Africa who are collectively known as "Wangara" has engaged the interest of scholars from the times of the Arab chroniclers to modern historians like Nehemia Levtzion, Ivor Wilks, and Paul Lovejoy. The Wangara have long been identified with the early Muslim commercial networks of Ghana, Mali and their neighbors, and "Wangara" also came to signify corporate groupe controlling…
Family Identity & the State in the Bamako Kafu, c. 1800-c. 1900
Art of the Baga
Status and Identity in West Africa. Nyamakalaw of Mande
The Making of Bamana Sculpture
1. The Bamana universe 2. The sculptor speaks with spirits: the other world 3. The human world 4. Trees and tools 5. Carving and aesthetics 6. Sacred secrets 7. 'The foundation of the world is with women
Playing with Time
Arnoldi (associate curator of African Ethnology and Art, Smithsonian Institution) weaves a vivid account of a West African theater tradition from the perspectives of the performers, the audiences, and the local youth associations who make elaborate puppet masquerades and sculpted masks. She examine
Status and Identity in West Africa
Status and Identity in West Africa
Status and Identity in West Africa
Status and Identity in West Africa
Presents the first full portrait of one of Africa's most most powerful and least understood social groups
Genii of the River Niger
A State of Intrigue
The setting Tayiru Banbera of Ngoin and Segu The bard and his narrative The historical content: variants and digressions The translation The music The narrative: Narrative episodes and major digressions The text Oral informants repeatedly cited in annotations
Archival Research in Guinea-Conakry
There has been an effective movement afoot in the Republic of Guinea to improve the climate of study and research for local and foreign scholars alike. The most obvious physical evidence of this is the dramatically improved archival facility in Conakry. In April 1991 Les Archives Nationales du Guinée began moving into an entirely new, specially constructed building next to the Ministère de la Jeunesse, des Arts, de la Culture et des Sports. By th…
The Epic of Son-Jara
Searching for History in The Sunjata Epic
That is why, regarding the time between the death of one great king and the rise of another king made famous by God, If you ask whether in that intervening period there were other kings, Of course there were, But their names are not known. Some scholars search for historical evidence in the ancient traditions preserved by bards of the Western Sudan, while other writers express doubts that these sources can contain any information of value to hist…
Logiques Metisses
Status and Identity in West Africa
The Freelancer–NGO Alliance
This paper explores the impact that emerging partnerships—particularly between freelancers and nonprofits—are having on the practices of contemporary foreign news reporting. Through an exploration of a widely published project on a health crisis in East Africa—funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and reported by the study's author—this study ultimately argues that issues of framing, representation, and ideology are not dominating for…
Islam in the Oral Traditions of Mali
As a study of some Islamic factors involved in the construction of oral narrative by Manding bards, this article is chiefly concerned with two distinct cases in which griots have borrowed important legendary figures from the literature of Arabia. It is found that Bilali, described by traditional genealogists as progenitor of the ancient ruling branch of the Keita lineage, originated as Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ, a companion of Muhammad and the first mu'adh…
The Conquest that Never was
We first conceived of this study several years ago, when our respective lines of research seemed to some extent to converge on the period of the decline of ancient Ghana. It has proved a more complex matter than we imagined, or than the deceptively simple title above might suggest--partly because it is often more difficult to prove that something did not happen than that it did. We have had to divide our analysis into two parts. First we examine …
The Conquest That Never Was
“The land took the name of the wells, the wells that had no bottom.” In Part I of this paper we examined the external written sources and found no unambiguous evidence that an Almoravid conquest of ancient Ghana ever occurred. The local oral evidence reviewed in this part of our study supports our earlier hypothesis, in that we find nothing in the traditions to indicate any conquest of the eleventh-century sahelian state known to Arab geographers…
Deconstructing the community radio model
Community radio is often theorized as being (1) independent from political and economic influence and (2) a platform for the meaningful engagement of marginalized populations traditionally excluded by its private and commercial cousins. Contrasting this theoretical model against the reality of practice, this study argues that the theorized benefits of community radio are unlikely to be realized given the reality of donor, rather than community, f…
The Negroland Revisited
The Making of Bamana Sculpture
1. The Bamana universe 2. The sculptor speaks with spirits: the other world 3. The human world 4. Trees and tools 5. Carving and aesthetics 6. Sacred secrets 7. 'The foundation of the world is with women
Status and Identity in West Africa. Nyamakalaw of Mande
Searching for History in The Sunjata Epic
That is why, regarding the time between the death of one great king and the rise of another king made famous by God, If you ask whether in that intervening period there were other kings, Of course there were, But their names are not known. Some scholars search for historical evidence in the ancient traditions preserved by bards of the Western Sudan, while other writers express doubts that these sources can contain any information of value to hist…
The Mande Blacksmiths
Reconstructing Oral Tradition
RECONSTRUCTING ORAL TRADITION: SOULEYMANE KANTE'S APPROACH TO WRITING MANDE HISTORY1 David C. Conrad "I have related all the anecdotes and historical narratives which he related ' without applying myself to investigate their truthfulness or to test them. " Ibn Juzayy2 Introduction: Drifting into the World of N'ko In 1994 during an extended research trip to Guinée on which I had no plans to do anything involving Souleymane Kanté or N'ko (with whic…
Playing with Time
Arnoldi (associate curator of African Ethnology and Art, Smithsonian Institution) weaves a vivid account of a West African theater tradition from the perspectives of the performers, the audiences, and the local youth associations who make elaborate puppet masquerades and sculpted masks. She examine
Dried Millet Breaking
Preface Acknowledgments Music Transcription Symbols and Kpelle Orthography Chapter 1 Battles That Never End Chapter 2 The Woi Epic Chapter 3 Dried Millet Breaking Chapter 4 Exchanges That Keep the Epic Going Chapter 5 The Textured Moment in Epic Chapter 6 The Person in Epic Chapter 7 The Epic in Local Life Chapter 8 Our Old People, Their Old People: The Epic and the Past Chapter 9 Epic and Time in Perspective Glossary of Kpelle Terms and Names Re…
Historical Dictionary of Mali
Archival Research in Guinea-Conakry
There has been an effective movement afoot in the Republic of Guinea to improve the climate of study and research for local and foreign scholars alike. The most obvious physical evidence of this is the dramatically improved archival facility in Conakry. In April 1991 Les Archives Nationales du Guinée began moving into an entirely new, specially constructed building next to the Ministère de la Jeunesse, des Arts, de la Culture et des Sports. By th…
Oral Sources on Links Between Great States
Qui est capable, hors Dieu, de scruter le passé? Some scholars interested in ancient Ghana and Mali dare to sift relevant oral traditions of the Western Sudan in search of historical evidence, while others express doubts that these sources can contain any information of value to historians. A period markedly affected by this question is that which saw the disintegration of Ghana and the rise of Mali in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Clearl…
Bold Research During Troubled Times in Guinea
The basic purpose here is to offer an archival report about historical and ethnographic material collected partly in Mali but mostly in Guinea, when such efforts in the latter country were contrary to official government policy and in some cases could be hazardous to undertake. Owing to the risks involved in some intellectual activities in Guinea between 1958 and 1984, as well as the importance of the material recorded on reel-to-reel tapes in th…
Maurice Delafosse and the pre-Sunjata Trône du Mandé
Scholars working with problems in ethnology, languages and history of the Manding-speaking peoples and some of their western Sudanic neighbours have long been aware that while much in the impressive range of works by Maurice Delafosse demands consultation, the writings of this prolific but fallible pioneer in West African studies must be treated with an extra measure of caution. The more one makes use of what is perhaps Delafosse's best-known wor…
Archival Resources in Mali
Before departing for Mali, researchers should write a formal request for permit to conduct research to: Ministre de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique, Bamako. A second letter should be sent to M. Mamadou Sarr, Chef de la Division de Recherche Scientifique, B.P. 159, Bamako, advising him that the first letter has been written and stating both the research topic and the anticipated duration of the research trip. Once in Bamak…
Slavery in Bambara society
The Conquest that Never was
We first conceived of this study several years ago, when our respective lines of research seemed to some extent to converge on the period of the decline of ancient Ghana. It has proved a more complex matter than we imagined, or than the deceptively simple title above might suggest--partly because it is often more difficult to prove that something did not happen than that it did. We have had to divide our analysis into two parts. First we examine …
The Conquest That Never Was
“The land took the name of the wells, the wells that had no bottom.” In Part I of this paper we examined the external written sources and found no unambiguous evidence that an Almoravid conquest of ancient Ghana ever occurred. The local oral evidence reviewed in this part of our study supports our earlier hypothesis, in that we find nothing in the traditions to indicate any conquest of the eleventh-century sahelian state known to Arab geographers…
Maurice Delafosse and the pre-Sunjata Trône du Mandé
Scholars working with problems in ethnology, languages and history of the Manding-speaking peoples and some of their western Sudanic neighbours have long been aware that while much in the impressive range of works by Maurice Delafosse demands consultation, the writings of this prolific but fallible pioneer in West African studies must be treated with an extra measure of caution. The more one makes use of what is perhaps Delafosse's best-known wor…
Oral Sources on Links Between Great States
Qui est capable, hors Dieu, de scruter le passé? Some scholars interested in ancient Ghana and Mali dare to sift relevant oral traditions of the Western Sudan in search of historical evidence, while others express doubts that these sources can contain any information of value to historians. A period markedly affected by this question is that which saw the disintegration of Ghana and the rise of Mali in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Clearl…
Islam in the Oral Traditions of Mali
As a study of some Islamic factors involved in the construction of oral narrative by Manding bards, this article is chiefly concerned with two distinct cases in which griots have borrowed important legendary figures from the literature of Arabia. It is found that Bilali, described by traditional genealogists as progenitor of the ancient ruling branch of the Keita lineage, originated as Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ, a companion of Muhammad and the first mu'adh…
Slaves and Slavery in Africa, Volume I
Historical Dictionary of Mali
Persuasions and Performances; The Play of Tropes in Culture
Chronicles from Gonja
The old kingdom of Gonja, founded by immigrant horsemen of Malian origins in the mid-sixteenth century, lies in the north of the Republic of Ghana. Historians of Gonja are fortunate in having access to chronicles of local authorship, written in Arabic. This book traces the development of that historiographical tradition and shows that by the early eighteenth century scholars in Gonja were not only maintaining annals but were also committing to wr…
Bilali of Faransekila”
“An only son must never die in war until the end of the world.” (Seydou Camara, “Bilali of Faransekila,” 1:396) Discussing the significance of Kande Kamara's oral history of West African experiences in the First World War, Joe Harris Lunn observes that, although historians have begun to examine the effects of that war on west Africa, their studies are mostly based on written sources, “and therefore shed little light on the lived reality of the wa…
Dried Millet Breaking
Preface Acknowledgments Music Transcription Symbols and Kpelle Orthography Chapter 1 Battles That Never End Chapter 2 The Woi Epic Chapter 3 Dried Millet Breaking Chapter 4 Exchanges That Keep the Epic Going Chapter 5 The Textured Moment in Epic Chapter 6 The Person in Epic Chapter 7 The Epic in Local Life Chapter 8 Our Old People, Their Old People: The Epic and the Past Chapter 9 Epic and Time in Perspective Glossary of Kpelle Terms and Names Re…
The Mande Blacksmiths
Searching for History in The Sunjata Epic
That is why, regarding the time between the death of one great king and the rise of another king made famous by God, If you ask whether in that intervening period there were other kings, Of course there were, But their names are not known. Some scholars search for historical evidence in the ancient traditions preserved by bards of the Western Sudan, while other writers express doubts that these sources can contain any information of value to hist…
Logiques Metisses
Archival Research in Guinea-Conakry
There has been an effective movement afoot in the Republic of Guinea to improve the climate of study and research for local and foreign scholars alike. The most obvious physical evidence of this is the dramatically improved archival facility in Conakry. In April 1991 Les Archives Nationales du Guinée began moving into an entirely new, specially constructed building next to the Ministère de la Jeunesse, des Arts, de la Culture et des Sports. By th…
The Epic of Son-Jara
A State of Intrigue
The setting Tayiru Banbera of Ngoin and Segu The bard and his narrative The historical content: variants and digressions The translation The music The narrative: Narrative episodes and major digressions The text Oral informants repeatedly cited in annotations
Status and Identity in West Africa
Presents the first full portrait of one of Africa's most most powerful and least understood social groups
Genii of the River Niger
Status and Identity in West Africa
Status and Identity in West Africa. Nyamakalaw of Mande
The Making of Bamana Sculpture
1. The Bamana universe 2. The sculptor speaks with spirits: the other world 3. The human world 4. Trees and tools 5. Carving and aesthetics 6. Sacred secrets 7. 'The foundation of the world is with women
Playing with Time
Arnoldi (associate curator of African Ethnology and Art, Smithsonian Institution) weaves a vivid account of a West African theater tradition from the perspectives of the performers, the audiences, and the local youth associations who make elaborate puppet masquerades and sculpted masks. She examine
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