ISBN:
9780520925717
,
0520925718
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 287 p.)
,
Ill.
DDC:
305.8963480664
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Alltag
;
Gewalttätigkeit
;
Mende (African people) Material culture
;
Mende (African people) Social life and customs
;
Sex role
;
Landscape assessment
;
Sierra Leone
;
Kpuawala (Sierra Leone) Politics and government
;
Kpuawala (Sierra Leone) Social life and customs
Abstract:
In this 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. The book 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1525/california/9780520225428.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520225428.001.0001
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