Griots at War: Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande.(Book Review) From: African Arts | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Arnoldi, Mary Jo | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Regents of the University of California. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Griots at War

Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande

Barbara G. Hoffman

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix + 298 pp. b/w photographs, bibliography and index. $39.95 cloth.

Most readers are familiar with works dedicated to the role of the Mande griot as the performer of epic histories in West Africa. More recently, the term "griot" has been applied liberally to World Beat African musicians and even to storytellers and mus...

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