Living in a landscape of scarcity materiality and cosmology in West Africa / Laurence Douny.

Author/creator Douny, Laurence, 1977-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWalnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2014]
Description257 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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SeriesPublications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ; v. 63
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
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LCCN 2014005345
ISBN9781611328912 (hardback : alk. paper)