Living In A Landscape Of Scarcity (Ucl Institute Of Archaeology Publications)

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 to their lives--water, earth, and millet. Douny's study is an important addition to ecological anthropology, to the study of West African cultures, to the understanding of material culture, and to anthropological theory.

• | Author: Laurence Douny
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1611328926
• | ISBN-13: 9781611328929