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Michael Lambert, a Ph.D candidate in Anthropology, will leave on October 31 for the West African country of Senegal, where he will investigate the effects of seasonal, educational and labor migration between rural villages and urban centers on the Boulouf-Diola people of the Basse-Casamance region...
Termed the "last forest peoples" of Africa, the Diola have until recently adamantly resisted contact with the rest of society, but "now they're reaching out very rapidly," Lambert said...
Lambert said that his would be a "bipolar study" that would involve examining both the effects of migration on the Diola people and the rapidly changing gender and age relations within this culture...
...SLAVE-GIRL Rosalie is the daughter of the Diola Bayangumay, a self-willed tribeswoman. Through the mother's eyes we glimpse both the glory of the culture bound by ties of survival and love and its swift, callous destruction by agents who are only understood by the tribe as evil spirits of the night. Bayangumay, who even on the slave-ship wants to swallow her tongue and sings "tomorrow I will cease to be an animal," is the prime source of her daughter's intransigence. The product of a drunken orgy of sailors and their black cargo, Rosalie, born with...
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