The underneath of things : violence, history, and the everyday in Sierra Leone
by
 
Ferme, Mariane C. (Mariane Conchita), 1959-

Title
: 
The underneath of things : violence, history, and the everyday in Sierra Leone

Author
: 
Ferme, Mariane C. (Mariane Conchita), 1959-

ISBN
: 
9780520225428
 
9780520225435

Personal Author
: 
Ferme, Mariane C. (Mariane Conchita), 1959-

Publication Information
: 
Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001.

Physical Description
: 
xii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents
: 
1. Immaterial Practices: Clues in a Modern Sierra Leonean Landscape -- Interlude 1: 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.

Subject Term
: 
Mende (African people) -- Material culture.
 
Mende (African people) -- Social life and customs.
 
Sex role -- Sierra Leone -- Kpuawala.
 
Landscape assessment -- Sierra Leone -- Kpuawala.

Geographic Term
: 
Kpuawala (Sierra Leone) -- Politics and government.
 
Kpuawala (Sierra Leone) -- Social life and customs.

Electronic Access
: 
Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c9v9-aa
 
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal042/00048845.html


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