Living in a Landscape of Scarcity
Laurence Douny
Douny (Univ. College London) examines the everyday practices that
sustain Dogon women and men living in Tireli, a village located in
the Bandiagara escarpment area of Mali. Though there is an
extensive anthropological literature on the Dogon, the material
ways that villagers manage to survive and even thrive in a
landscape of scarcity is less well known. The author begins by
considering the wider landscape and associated earth shrines, then
analyzes successively smaller spaces villages, compounds, millet
granaries, and human bodies that exemplify the concept of
containment as a metaphor for Dogon social life. Summing Up:
Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
E. P. Renne, University of Michigan, Choice Magazine"
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