Laurence Douny: 1 book

Book cover of Living in a Landscape of Scarcity

Living in a Landscape of Scarcity

Materiality and Cosmology in West Africa

by Laurence Douny
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016

In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practice in a landscape of scarcity. Viewed through the lens of containment practice, she describes how they cope with the shortage of material items central...
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