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Virtual or Real: Symbols of Migration from the Fouta Djallon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Frederick John Lamp
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Abstract

The Baga of Guinea have developed masked performances that celebrate the movements of the ancestors from the highlands to the coast. The performance serves to legitimize the establishment of society in its current form and to reinforce the sense of place by reliving the process by which that place has become an identity. This paper is an attempt to analyze the complexity of the Baga choreographies of migration, concentrating on two costumed characters.

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Research Article
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Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings , Volume 39 , supplement S1: Choreographies Of Migration: Patterns Of Global Mobility , 2007 , pp. 144 - 150
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2007

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