Special Issue: "Secrets and Lies in the Mande World."

Guest editors: Molly Roth and Jan Jansen

Molly Roth and Jan Jansen: Introduction: The Social Life of Knowledge

Sory Camara: Servitudes rituelles, subversion narrative, ou le secret de l'existence

Molly Roth: The 'Secret' in Malian Historical Consciousness: Renarrating the West

Dorothea E. Schulz: Seductive Secretiveness: Jeliw as Creators and Creations of Ethnography

Barbara G. Hoffman: Classifying Information: Secrets, Lies, and Other Categories in Mande

Jan Jansen: The Mande Magical Mystery Tour: The Mission Griaule in Kangaba (Mali)

Julianne E. Freeman: Knowledge, Secrecy, and the Practice of Senior Womanhood Among the Bamana of the Bélédugu (Mali)

Alma Gottlieb: Secrets and Society: The Beng of Côte d'Ivoire

Ferdinand de Jong: Secrecy and the State: The Kankurang Masquerade in Senegal

Patrick McNaughton: Comments on 'Secrets and Lies'

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