Famoro dioubate biography definition

The introduction presents the anthropologist Lisa Feder, and the jelis, Manding, West African oral historians, musicians, and singers, as they cross cultures in the Gambia, Guinea-Conakry, New York, and Paris. The author presents reasons for using a musical, embodied practice as a field methodology. She explains her reflexive, subjective, position in the study as well as her choice of emotional, narrative story-telling as ethnographic representation. In doing so she recalls anthropologists who have influenced her such as Gregory Bateson, John Chernoff, Greg Downey, Paul Stoller, and Ruth Behar. Tension-and-resolution is the overarching theme in the book, both in the melodic cross-rhythms in jeli music and in social patterns in life. Three interrelated concepts—time, money, and sweetness (in human relations)—cause conflict between local and global perspectives.

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   Two World Systems Collide: Negotiating between Manding and American 1 Sensibilities

   Two World Systems Collide: Negotiating between Manding and American1 Sensibilities LISA FEDER Independent Researcher lisa@lisafeder.com SUMMARY When jaliya crosses cultural boundaries, distinct differences emerge between Manding and American sensibilities that throw into question whether relating at all is worth the effort. In this article, the author describes three weeks spent in New York where she produces an album for Famoro Dioubaté, a Guinean musician and oral historian called a jali in the Manding language. Historically, jalis render a service to the people in their community through their specialized music and words. In return they receive, sometimes handsome, donations on which they depend for their livelihood. As jalis move to cities like New York and Paris, their habitual ways of doing business do not translate across cultural lines. In this three-week project, the author uses selfreflect