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Author Jackson, Michael, 1940- author

Title In Sierra Leone / Michael Jackson
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection
Contents Night flight to Freetown -- The North -- Place of refuge -- In Kabala -- The beef -- Within these four walls -- The executions -- Fina Kamara's story -- Tina Kome Marah -- Early days -- Independence -- Going abroad -- In government -- Thinking back -- Seeds of conflict -- The war -- Day into night -- The reversals of fortune -- The value of shade -- Exile -- In Conakry -- Trust and truth -- The hotel
Summary The reminiscences of an anthropologist revisiting the site of his fieldwork from the 1970s; it is also an account of the life of a prominent politician (and friend of the author) in Sierra Leone
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index
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Subject Jackson, Michael, 1940-
Marah, Sewa Bockarie, 1934-2003.
SUBJECT Jackson, Michael, 1940- fast
Marah, Sewa Bockarie, 1934-2003 fast
Subject Anthropologists -- Sierra Leone -- Biography
Political anthropology -- Sierra Leone
War and society -- Sierra Leone
Kuranko (African people) -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Anthropologists
Kuranko (African people)
Political anthropology
Politics and government
Social conditions
War and society
Politieke antropologie.
Oorlog.
Kuranko.
SUBJECT Sierra Leone -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122359
Sierra Leone -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122354
Subject Sierra Leone
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822385561
0822385562
1283023776
9781283023771
9786613023773
6613023779