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Out of war : violence, trauma, and the political imagination in Sierra Leone /

"Out of War draws on author Mariane C. Ferme's three decades of ethnographic engagements to examine the after-effects of the harms of a civil war, the legacy of which is experienced in both physical and psychological ways. Ferme examines the relationship among violence, temporality, trauma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ferme, Mariane C. (Mariane Conchita), 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : war times and forms of life
  • Belatedness : vision, writing, and the labor of time
  • Chronotope 1 : prefiguring shifting alliances-the sobel
  • War time rumors : Red Cross as rebel cross and other figures of the collective imagination
  • Chronotope 2 : numbers, examples, and exceptions
  • Hunters, warriors, and their technologies
  • Sitting on land : the political and symbolic economy of chieftancy in contemporary Sierra Leone
  • Refugees and diasporic publics : the territorial state reconfigured
  • Child soldiers and contested imaginary of community in post-conflict Sierra Leone
  • Forced marriage and sexual enslavement : debating consent, custom, and law at the special court for Sierra Leone
  • Inscriptions on the wall : Chinese material traces in Sierra Leone
  • Conclusion : surviving and moving on-ephemeral returns.