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Table of Contents
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Preface
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Ralph A. Austen |
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Preface
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Map of the Mande region
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Introduction: A Spatial Interpretation of the Nyamakala's Activities
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Ch. I
On Secrecy and Secrets: Texts as Tools
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The Practice of Apprenticeship
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Why Formal Education is Unnecessary: 'C'est Notre Heritage'
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Speaking Texts and Linguistic Skills
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The Meaning of 'Secrets' and the Way They are Inherited
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The Griot's Apprenticeship: Good Speech, Social Memory, and Mental Text
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Concluding Remarks
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Ch. II
The Appearance of Shamelessness: The Skills to Shape Interaction
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The Griot's Skill - don't let the parties meet
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The Griot's Skill - don't we have to talk first?
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The Griot's Skill - repetitive talking
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The Griot's Skill - slowing down tactics
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The Griot's Skill - let others take the initiative
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The Griot's Skill - a Pyrrhic victory: the right compliance, but the wrong etiquette
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The Griot's Skill - the forgotten group
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The Griot's Skill - value judgements: gift relations and framing
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The Griot's Skill - change of social perspective
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The Griot's Skill - the appearance of choice: accepting the inevitable 'because of you'
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The Griot's Skill - controlled, non-spontaneous rage and invented etiquette
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Kinship in Mande - the Griot's Meta-Framework
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The Griot's Invertability and Public Shamelessness
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Ch. III
'Ici repose l'ancetre Diabate Gbre Yiramori 1355-1432': Social Relations and Oral Tradition
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To Sirakoro
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The Restoration of the Grave
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To Give Account Of ...
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Analysis: The Intended Opacity of Mande Ceremony - the choice of ancestor
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Analysis: The Intended Opacity of Mande Ceremony - the calculation of historical data
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Analysis: The Intended Opacity of Mande Ceremony - plurality of functions
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Social Relations and Oral Tradition
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Conclusion: Back to the Future
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Appendix
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Bibliography
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