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Douny, Laurence

 
9781611328912: Living in a Landscape of Scarcity
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1611328918 ISBN 13 : 9781611328912
Editeur : Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Laurence Douny is an honorary research fellow at UCL Department of Anthropology. Since 2001, she has been conducting research in the Dogon region of Mali in West Africa on landscape and material culture issues. She also researches wild silk and indigo techniques in Mali, Burkina Faso, Northern Ivory Coast, and Nigeria. She has written several papers on West African material culture in relation to shrines, domestic waste, heritage, wild silk textiles, and the anthropology of techniques.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1611328918
ISBN 13 
9781611328912
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
258
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