ISBN:
9781611328912
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
257 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Serie:
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London 63
DDC:
306.46096623
Schlagwort(e):
Dogon (African people) Material culture
;
Landscapes Symbolic aspects
;
Cosmology, Dogon
;
Architecture, Dogon
;
Food supply
;
Scarcity
;
Mali
;
Dogon
;
Mangel
;
Lebensbewältigung
;
Sachkultur
;
Sozialanthropologie
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Living in a landscape of scarcity: a materiality approach -- 'Making' and 'doing' the Dogon microcosmology : some ethnographic, methodological and conceptual background -- Conceptual boundaries and inside/outside dialectics as a dwelling process -- The inside of the village as cultural matrix : building process and material symbolism -- The outside of the village as a 'life-giving' reservoir -- Dogon 'weather world' : local epistemologies of rains and winds -- The Dogon compound : fixing, gathering, and bounding the everyday -- Domestic waste : doing and un-doing the compound -- Making a granary : embedded and embodied technologies -- Pandora's granary : material practice of concealment -- A micro cosmology in a millet pearl : cooking techniques and eating habits -- Cosmological matters : towards a philosophy of containment.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
