Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern

by Mike McGovern

Book Overview

When the Republic of Guinea gained independence in 1958, one of the first policies of the new state was a village-to-village eradication of masks and other ritual objects it deemed "fetishes." The Demystification Program, as it was called, was so urgent it even preceded the building of a national road system. In Unmasking the State, Mike McGovern attempts to understand why this program was so important to the emerging state and examines the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226925099
• ISBN13: 9780226925097
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 312 Pages