Living in a landscape of scarcity materiality and cosmology in West Africa / Laurence Douny.
| Author/creator | Douny, Laurence, 1977- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2014] |
| Description | 257 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Publications 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014005345 |
| ISBN | 9781611328912 (hardback : alk. paper) |