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Living in a Landscape of Scarcity : Materiality and Cosmology in West Africa /
In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practice in a landscape of scarcity. Viewed through the lens of containment practice, she describes how they cope with the shortage of material items c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek, California :
Left Coast Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ;
63. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practice in a landscape of scarcity. Viewed through the lens of containment practice, she describes how they cope with the shortage of material items central to their lives-water, earth, and millet. Douny's study is an important addition to ecological anthropology, to the study of West African cultures, to the understanding of material culture, and to anthropological theory. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (258 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611328936 1611328934 9781611328912 1611328918 9781611328943 1611328942 9781315425214 1315425211 |