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Film, Video Timbuktu Manuscipts and the Efforts to Maintain the Desert

Event video

About this Item

Title

  • Timbuktu Manuscipts and the Efforts to Maintain the Desert

Summary

  • The curator of the Mamma Haidara Memorial Library in Timbuktu, Mali, presented a lecture related to and illustrative of the exhibit "Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu." Though known to African communities for generations, the recognition of these texts by Western academics has created a breakthrough in recent scholarship. Once believed to be based solely on oral tradition, African culture also has been passed down through a rich literary tradition as evidenced by the existence of these manuscripts.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2003-09-03.

Headings

  • -  Cities, Towns
  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Environment, Conservation
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts

Notes

  • -  Abdel Kader Haidara.
  • -  Recorded on 2003-09-03.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687639

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. Timbuktu Manuscipts and the Efforts to Maintain the Desert. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-03, 2003. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687639/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division, S. B. (2003) Timbuktu Manuscipts and the Efforts to Maintain the Desert. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-03. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687639/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. Timbuktu Manuscipts and the Efforts to Maintain the Desert. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-03, 2003. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687639/>.