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Author Douny, Laurence, 1977- author.

Title Living in a Landscape of Scarcity : Materiality and Cosmology in West Africa / Laurence Douny.

Publication Info. Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ; 63
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ; 63.
Contents 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 -- Inside of the village as cultural matrix : building process and material symbolism -- Outside of the village as a 'life-giving' reservoir -- Dogon 'weather world' : local epistemologies of rains and winds -- 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.
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
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Subject Dogon (African people) -- Material culture -- Mali.
Dogon (African people)
Material culture.
Mali.
Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects -- Mali.
Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects.
Cosmology, Dogon.
Cosmology, Dogon.
Architecture, Dogon.
Architecture, Dogon.
Food supply -- Mali.
Food supply.
Scarcity.
Scarcity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Douny, Laurence, 1977- Living in a landscape of scarcity. Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2014] 9781611328912 (DLC) 2014005345 (OCoLC)871689270
ISBN 9781611328936 (electronic book)
1611328934 (electronic book)
9781611328912
1611328918