Carol MacCormack's Sande: The Public Face of a Secret Society is a scholarly anthropological chapter on the Sande women's association of West Africa, published in Bennetta Jules-Rosette's edited volume The New Religions of Africa through Ablex Publishing in Norwood, New Jersey. MacCormack was an anthropologist who conducted fieldwork on West African women's initiation societies, and the chapter carries the authority of that direct ethnographic engagement with Sande specifically. This record's publication year is left unset rather than guessed, since the surviving bibliographic record for this specific edited volume did not settle it with confidence; a reader needing the precise year should confirm it against a library catalog entry for the volume before relying on it. Its limit as a source is the ordinary one for a book chapter, a focused treatment rather than a comprehensive study, so a broader claim about Sande benefits from the wider ethnographic literature on Mende and related societies.
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Carol MacCormack's chapter in Jules-Rosette's edited volume The New Religions of Africa (Ablex) is a scholarly anthropological account grounded in the author's own fieldwork on West African women's initiation societies, treated at the top tier as direct ethnographic scholarship. NotesPublication year uncertain from available bibliographic record; left NULL rather than guessed.
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AuthorCarol P. MacCormack
Publisherin B. Jules-Rosette (ed.), The New Religions of Africa, Ablex, Norwood NJ
Publication Year1979
Bennetta Jules-Rosette, ed., The New Religions of Africa (Ablex, Norwood NJ, 1979), pages 27 to 37. Source TypeEthnography
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This source names Africa directly: "the Sande women's association of West Africa, published in Bennetta Jules-Rosette's edited volume The New Religions of Africa through Ablex Publishing in Norwood, New Jersey."
Claims Backed By This Source (18 claims)
This source backs 18 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Secret Societies, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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