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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Douny, Laurence, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, [2014]
Colección:Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ; 63.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Living in a landscape of scarcity: a materiality approach
  • 'Making' and 'doing' the Dogon microcosmology : some ethnographic, methodological and conceptual background
  • Conceptual boundaries and inside/outside dialectics as a dwelling process
  • The inside of the village as cultural matrix : building process and material symbolism
  • The outside of the village as a 'life-giving' reservoir
  • Dogon 'weather world' : local epistemologies of rains and winds
  • The Dogon compound : fixing, gathering, and bounding the everyday
  • Domestic waste : doing and un-doing the compound
  • Making a granary : embedded and embodied technologies
  • Pandora's granary : material practice of concealment
  • A micro cosmology in a millet pearl : cooking techniques and eating habits
  • Cosmological matters : towards a philosophy of containment.