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Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern
Unmasking the State Making Guinea Modern
Author: Mike McGovern
When the Republic of Guinea gained independence in 1958, one of the first policies of the new state was a village-to-village eradication of masks and other ritual objects it deemed ?fetishes.? The Demystification Program, as it was called, was so urgent it even preceded the building of a national road system. In Unmasking the State, Mike McGover...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226925097
ISBN-10: 0226925099
Publication Date: 12/15/2012
Pages: 320
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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