1st Edition
Living in a Landscape of Scarcity Materiality and Cosmology in West Africa
By Laurence Douny
Copyright 2014
257 Pages
by
Routledge
257 Pages
by
Routledge
257 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. 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.
Living in a Landscape of Scarcity
Biography
Laurence Douny