{"product_id":"the-underneath-of-things-9780520225435","title":"The Underneath of Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis ethnography 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The world is currently quite aware of Sierra Leone and its predicament, and it needs this well-informed and beautifully written account of what makes the country so wonderful despite its woes. Ferme's work is truly transcendent, capturing magnificently well some of the most important aspects of an otherwise 'difficult' ethnographic case. It is a truthful and honest piece of work, based on a deep grasp of the ethnographer's craft.\" - Paul Richards, author of Fighting for the Rain Forest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Immaterial Practices: Clues in a Modern Sierra Leonean \u003cbr\u003e     Landscape\u003cbr\u003e     INTERLUDE I: Weaving Cloth, Hair, and the Social World \u003cbr\u003e 2. Ambiguity and Gendered Practices \u003cbr\u003e 3. Strategies of Incorporation: Marriage and the Forms of \u003cbr\u003e     Dependence\u003cbr\u003e     INTERLUDE 2: Splitting Kola \u003cbr\u003e 4. The House of Impermanence and the Politics of Mobility \u003cbr\u003e 5. Becoming a Kpako: The Body and the Aesthetics of Power \u003cbr\u003e     INTERLUDE 3: Clay, Palm Oil, and Temporality \u003cbr\u003e 6. Children and Their Doubles \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e References \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402812858711,"sku":"9780520225435","price":26.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520225435.jpg?v=1730481578","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-underneath-of-things-9780520225435","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}