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...