Living In A Landscape Of Scarcity Materiality And Cosmology In West Africa | Anthropology

In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practice in a landscape of scarcity. Viewed through the lens of containment practice she describes how they cope with the shortage of material items central to their lives-water earth and millet. Douny’s study is an important addition to ecological anthropology to the study of West African cultures to the understanding of material culture and to anthropological theory. |Living in a Landscape of Scarcity Materiality and Cosmology in West Africa | Anthropology