ISBN:
9781315425207
,
9781315425184
,
9781315425191
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Series Statement:
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London Volume 63
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.46096623
Keywords:
Dogon (African people) Material culture
;
Landscapes Symbolic aspects
;
Cosmology, Dogon
;
Architecture, Dogon
;
Food supply
;
Scarcity
Abstract:
1. Living in a landscape of scarcity : a materiality approach -- 2. 'Making' and 'doing' the Dogon microcosmology : some ethnographic, methodological and conceptual background -- 3. Conceptual boundaries and inside/outside dialectics as a dwelling process -- 4. The inside of the village : material symbolism and building process -- 5. The outside of the village as a 'life-giving' reservoir -- 6. Dogon 'weather world' : local conceptions of rain and wind -- 7. The compound : fixing, gathering, and enclosing the everyday -- 8. Domestic waste : doing and undoing the compound -- 9. Making an earth granary : embedded and embodied technologies -- 10. Pandora's granary : material practices of concealment -- 11. A microcosmology in a millet grain : cooking techniques and eating habits -- 12. Cosmological matters : towards a philosophy of containment.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index
DOI:
10.4324/9781315425214
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