The Semantics of Violence: Territory, War and Power in Mandingue Region of West Africa
This article deals with the many links (cosmogonical, ideological and political) between war and geography in the Mandingue region of West Africa. The Mande tradition enables us to understand the ways in which the semantics of organized violence work, especially as regards the just war, in particular by way of an analysis of power variations as related to territoriality.