(DOWNLOAD) "Living in a Landscape of Scarcity" by Laurence Douny * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Living in a Landscape of Scarcity
- Author : Laurence Douny
- Release Date : January 17, 2016
- Genre: Anthropology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 12863 KB
Description
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.