Bibliography
Books, Journals, Lectures:
- Ampene, Kwasi. West African Ethnomusicologist at University of Michigan. Interviewed Friday, March 13, 2015
- Bellagamba, Alice. "Before It Is Too Late: Constructing an Archive of Oral Sources and a National Museum in Independent Gambia." Africa Today, 2006, 29-52.
- Christian, David. Maps of Time. University of California Press; New Ed edition (2005).
- Hale, Thomas A. Griots and Griottes: Masters of Words and Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
- Hopkins, Nicholas S. "Memories of Griots / (ﺫﻛﺮﻳﺎﺕ ﺍﻟﺮﻭﺍﺓ (ﺍﻟﻐﺮﻳﻮ." Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics No. 17.Literature and Anthropology in Africa / الأدب والأنثروبولوجيا في أفريقيا (1997): 43-72. JSTOR. Web.
- Latham, Norah. A Sketch-map History of West Africa. London: Hulton Educational Publications, 1970. Print.
- Niane, Djibril Tamsir., David W. Chappell, and Jim Jones. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali. Harlow, England: Pearson Longman, 2006. Print.
- Stoller, Paul. 'Ethnographies As Texts/Ethnographers As Griots'. American Ethnologist 21.2 (1994): 353-366. Web.
- Thornton, Robert. "Narrative Ethnography in Africa, 1850-1920: The Creation and Capture of an Appropriate Domain for Anthropology." Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1983): n. pag. Web.
- Sullivan, Charley. "Race, Anthropology, Measurement & Photography in the American Colonial Philippines." University of Michigan.
- Jones, Martha. "Slavery and the Trade." University of Michigan.
Pictures:
- Untitled, Field Engraving, 1912. Yale University's Ross Archive of African Images.
- Abolition of Slavery map scanned from Latham, cited above.
- Griots and Musical Instruments, Sierra Leone, early 1820s. Ref # LCP-27, as shown on <www.slaveryimages.org>, compiled by Jerome Handler and Michael Tuite, and sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.
- Cover of "Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali," cited above. Image taken from <http://literature.wikia.com/wiki/Epic_of_Sundiata>
External Links:
- Vydrin, Valentin and Bergman, T.G. Mandé Language Family of West Africa: Location and Genetic Classification. April 2001. Web.
- Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.