Coastal Sierra Leone : materiality and the unseen in maritime West Africa /

Coastal Sierra Leone : materiality and the unseen in maritime West Africa /

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Author / Creator:	Diggins, Jennifer, author.
Imprint:	London : International African Institute ; Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambrige University Press, [2018]
Description:	xii, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The international African library ; 55 International African library ; 55.
Subject:	Economic anthropology -- Sierra Leone. Economic anthropology. Sierra Leone -- History. Sierra Leone. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11691062

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ISBN:	1108471161 9781108471169 9781108471169
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index.
Summary:	Against the backdrop of a threadbare post-war state and a global marine ecology in treacherous decline, Jennifer Diggins offers a dynamic account of post-war Sierra Leone, through the examination of a precarious frontier economy and those who depend on it. The book traces how understandings of intimacy, interdependence, and exploitation have been shaped through a history of indentured labour, violence, and gendered migration; and how these relationships are being renegotiated once more in a context of deepening economic uncertainty. At its core, this is about the material substance of human relationships. One can go a long way towards mapping the town's shifting networks of friendship, love, and obligation simply by watching the vast daily traffic in gifts of fish exchanging hands on the wharf. However, these mundane social and economic strategies are often inflected through a cultural dynamic of 'secrecy', and a shared sense of the unseen forces understood to inhabit the material world.

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Call Number:	GN585.S57 D54 2018
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