Living in a Landscape of Scarcity : Materiality and Cosmology in West Africa

by Laurence Douny

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications

ISBN-10 1611328918

ISBN-13 9781611328912

Publisher Left Coast Press Inc

Imprint Left Coast Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 15th, 2014

Print length 257 Pages

Weight 544 grams

Product Classification: Anthropology

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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.

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.

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