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Violence, History and the Everyday in Sierra Leone
Mariane C. Ferme
ISBN: 9780520225428
Format: Hardback
Publisher:The University Press Group Ltd
Edition: New edition
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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.
In this erudite and gracefully written ethnograph, 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 south-eastern 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.
| ISBN | 0520225422 | | Pages | 299 | | ISBN13 | 9780520225428
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | The University Press Group Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 628 | | Imprint | University of California Press | | Published in | CA | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 235 | | Publication date | 14 Sep 2001 | | Width (mm) | 159 | | Library of Congress | 00-048845 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY | 966.403 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | List of Illustrations | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Introduction | | 1 | | 1 | | Immaterial Practices: Clues in a Modern Sierra Leonean Landscape | | 23 | | | | Interlude 1: Weaving Cloth, Hair, and the Social World | | 49 | | 2 | | Ambiguity and Gendered Practices | | 61 | | 3 | | Strategies of Incorporation: Marriage and the Forms of Dependence | | 81 | | | | Interlude 2: Splitting Kola | | 112 | | 4 | | The House of Impermanence and the Politics of Mobility | | 121 | | 5 | | Becoming a Kpako: The Body and the Aesthetics of Power | | 159 | | | | Interlude 3: Clay, Palm Oil, and Temporality | | 187 | | 6 | | Children and Their Doubles | | 197 | | | | Conclusion | | 219 | | | | Notes | | 229 | | | | References | | 253 | | | | Index | | 281 |
"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  Be the first to write a customer review
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