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The Underneath of Things

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In this erudite and gracefully written ethnography, Mariane Ferme explores the links between a violent historical and political legacy, and the production of secrecy in everyday material culture. T...
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In this erudite and gracefully written ethnography, Mariane Ferme explores the links between a violent historical and political legacy, and the production of secrecy in everyday material culture. The focus is on Mende-speaking southeastern Sierra Leone and the surrounding region. Since 1990, this area has been ravaged by a civil war that produced population displacements and regional instability. The Underneath of Things documents the rural impact of the progressive collapse of the Sierra Leonean state in the past several decades, and seeks to understand how an even earlier history is reinscribed in the present.
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Price: $33.95
Pages: 299
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 14 September 2001
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520225435
Format: Paperback
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Mariane C. Ferme is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. 
List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

1. Immaterial Practices: Clues in a Modern Sierra Leonean 
    Landscape
    INTERLUDE I: 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 

Conclusion 
Notes 
References 
Index