The underneath of things : violence, history, and the everyday in Sierra Leone / Mariane C. Ferme.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferme, Mariane C. (Mariane Conchita), 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mende (African people)--Material culture.

Mende (African people).

Mende (African people)--Social life and customs.

Sex role--Sierra Leone--Kpuawala.

Sex role.

Landscape assessment--Sierra Leone--Kpuawala.

Landscape assessment.

Kpuawala (Sierra Leone)--Politics and government.

Kpuawala (Sierra Leone).

Kpuawala (Sierra Leone)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 287 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this ethnography, Mariane Ferme explores the links between a violent historical and political legacy, and the production of secrecy in everyday material culture. The focus is on Mende-speaking southeastern Sierra Leone and the surrounding region. The book documents the rural impact of the progressive collapse of the Sierra Leonean state in the past several decades, and seeks to understand how an even earlier history is reinscribed in the present.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 Immaterial Practices: Clues in a Modern Sierra Leonean Landscape

CHAPTER 2 Ambiguity and Gendered Practices

CHAPTER 3 Strategies of Incorporation: Marriage and the Forms of Dependence

CHAPTER 4 The House of Impermanence and the Politics of Mobility

CHAPTER 5 Becoming a Kpako: The Body and the Aesthetics of Power

CHAPTER 6 Children and Their Doubles

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-280) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-520-92571-8

OCLC:

962382947