Underneath of Things

Violence, History, and the Everyday in Sierra Leone

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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In this erudite and gracefully written ethnography, Mariane Ferme explores the links between a violent historical and political legacy, and the production of secrecy in everyday material culture. The focus is on Mende-speaking southeastern Sierra Leone and the surrounding region. Since 1990, this area has been ravaged by a civil war that produced population displacements and regional instability. The Underneath of Things documents the rural impact of the progressive collapse of the Sierra Leonean state in the past several decades, and seeks to understand how an even earlier history is reinscribed in the present.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-09-14
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor299
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520225435

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Immaterial Practices: Clues in a Modern Sierra Leonean LandscapeINTERLUDE I: Weaving Cloth, Hair, and the Social World 2. Ambiguity and Gendered Practices 3. Strategies of Incorporation: Marriage and the Forms of DependenceINTERLUDE 2: Splitting Kola 4. The House of Impermanence and the Politics of Mobility 5. Becoming a Kpako: The Body and the Aesthetics of Power INTERLUDE 3: Clay, Palm Oil, and Temporality 6. Children and Their Doubles Conclusion Notes References Index

"The world is currently quite aware of Sierra Leone and its predicament, and it needs this well-informed and beautifully written account of what makes the country so wonderful despite its woes. Ferme's work is truly transcendent, capturing magnificently well some of the most important aspects of an otherwise 'difficult' ethnographic case. It is a truthful and honest piece of work, based on a deep grasp of the ethnographer's craft." - Paul Richards, author of Fighting for the Rain Forest