Underneath of Things - Violence, History, and the Everyday in Sierra Leone

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List of contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

1. Immaterial Practices: Clues in a Modern Sierra Leonean 
    Landscape
    INTERLUDE I: Weaving Cloth, Hair, and the Social World 
2. Ambiguity and Gendered Practices 
3. Strategies of Incorporation: Marriage and the Forms of 
    Dependence
    INTERLUDE 2: Splitting Kola 
4. The House of Impermanence and the Politics of Mobility 
5. Becoming a Kpako: The Body and the Aesthetics of Power 
    INTERLUDE 3: Clay, Palm Oil, and Temporality 
6. Children and Their Doubles 

Conclusion 
Notes 
References 
Index

About the author

Mariane C. Ferme is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Summary

This ethnography 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.

Product details

• Authors: Mariane Ferme, Mariane C Ferme, Mariane C. Ferme, Ferme Mariane C.
• Assisted by: Mariane C. Ferme (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.09.2001
• EAN: 9780520225435
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22543-5
• No. of pages: 299
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Cultural Studies, Sierra Leone, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Anthropology, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Africa / West, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, African History, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Physical anthropology