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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.

The Underneath of Things: Violence, History, and the Everyday in Sierra Leone

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In this erudite and gracefully written ethnography, Mariane Ferme explores the links between a violent historical and political legacy, and... Read more

    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 14/09/2001
    ISBN13: 9780520225435, 978-0520225435
    ISBN10: 0520225430

    Number of Pages: 299

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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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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