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Hardcover Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern Book
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ISBN: 0226925099

ISBN13: 9780226925097

Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern

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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...

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