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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.