Article: Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal.(Book review)

Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Ferdinand De Jong. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2005. 216 pp.

It is always a pleasure to find insightful Anglophone treatises on the Casamance region of Southern Senegal, and Masquerades of Modernity is an excellent new addition to this relatively small body of literature. De Jong skillfully frames his material in relation to prominent themes in social theory including modernity, globalization, and the challenges of ethnographic writing and authority. The dialogue with contemporary sociological and anthropological concepts and the erudite but accessible nature of the writing make the ...

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