Living in a Landscape of Scarcity
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Bandiagara Cliffs
Bandiagara Escarpment
Bush Space
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Cold Dry Season
Container Forms
containment theory
Cooking Pots
Cultivated Bush
Dogon Cosmogony
Dogon Men
Dogon People
Dogon Region
Dogon Villagers
Earth Shrines
ecological anthropology
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Granary Walls
Hot Dry Season
Land Shrines
Large Family
material culture studies
microcosmology in Mali villages
Millet Cake
Millet Grains
Millet Granary
Millet Spikes
Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission
resource scarcity adaptation
ritual practice analysis
United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization
West African ethnography
Wet Mud
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781611328929
- Weight: 358g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2021
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Laurence Douny
