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

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


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In this erudite and gracefully written 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. Since 1990, this area has been ravaged by a civil war that produced population displacements and regional instability. The Underneath of Things 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.

Table 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 Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and Chair of the Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Review :
"The world is currently quite aware of Sierra Leone and its predicament, and it needs this well-informed and beautifully written account of what makes the country so wonderful despite its woes. Ferme's work is truly transcendent, capturing magnificently well some of the most important aspects of an otherwise 'difficult' ethnographic case. It is a truthful and honest piece of work, based on a deep grasp of the ethnographer's craft." - Paul Richards, author of Fighting for the Rain Forest


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520225435
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 299
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 454 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0520225430
  • Publisher Date: 14 Sep 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 299
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Violence, History, and the Everyday in Sierra Leone
  • Width: 152 mm


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