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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 |
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.