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1 online resource (258 pages) |
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Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ; 63 |
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Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ; 63.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Dogon (African people) -- Material culture -- Mali
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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects -- Mali
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Cosmology, Dogon.
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Architecture, Dogon.
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Food supply -- Mali
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Scarcity.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Architecture, Dogon
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Cosmology, Dogon
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Food supply
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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects
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Scarcity
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Mali
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781611328936 |
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1611328934 |
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9781611328912 |
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1611328918 |
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9781611328943 |
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1611328942 |
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9781315425214 |
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1315425211 |
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