Living in a Landscape of Scarcity

Download or read book Living in a Landscape of Scarcity written by Laurence Douny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.