Ferdinand de Jong (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Submitted: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:48:06 -0800


Ferdinand de Jong
Ph.D. Candidate
Amsterdam School for Social Science Research
University of Amsterdam

Mail address:
Wagenaarstraat 99
1093 CL Amsterdam
The Netherlands

phone:  (0031) 20 6687264
fax:    (0031) 20 5252446
e-mail: dejong@pscw.uva.nl
 

Writing up Ph.D. Dissertation: Sacred secrets. Performance and the
politics of identity in Casamance, Senegal. 

Research interests:
Masquerades, performance, ritual, ethnicity, globalization, political
separatism, Casamance, Senegal.

"Sacred secrets. The politics of performance and identity in Casamance
(Senegal)." Ph.D. Thesis, University of Amsterdam (in prep.).

Selected publications:

1994	"Jola inventing their past and future," Leidschrift 10 (2):
15-35.  

1995 	"The making of a Jola identity: Jola inventing their
past and future." In: Jos van der Klei (ed.), Proceedings CERES/CNWS
Summer School

1994    "Popular Culture: Beyond Historical Legacy and Political
Innocence." Utrecht: CERES: 133-150.

1997	"The power of a Mask: a contextual analysis of the
Senegalese Kumpo Mask performance," Focaal 29: 37-56.

1998a 	"The production of translocality: initiation in the sacred grove
in South Senegal," Focaal 30/31: 61-83. 

1998b 	"De verbeelding van volkscultuur. Maskers, maskerades, en hun
representatie in musea en folklore." In Yearbook Netherlands Open Air
Museum 4: Nijmegen/Arnhem: SUN/NOM: 84-109. 

1998c "Trajectories of a mask performance: the Senegalese Kumpo," Cahiers
d'Etudes africaines (forthc.). 

1998d 	"The Casamance conflict in Senegal." In _The causes of conflict in
the third world_. The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs in
association with The Netherlands Institute of International Relations
Clingendael (forthc.). 

n.d. 	Playing with politicians. Shifting allegiances in Jola politics. 

n.d. 	"The production of translocality: initiation in the sacred grove
in South Senegal." In Richard Fardon (ed.), Proceedings of the
international conference "Globalisation, development and the making of
consumers."

n.d. 	"The forbidden masquerade. Ethnicity and the non-performance of
ritual."  In Ton Dekker et al. (eds), Roots and rituals:  Managing
ethnicity (in prep.).