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

Diggins, Jennifer, author

Overview

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.

• Publisher: International African Institute ; Cambrige University Press
• Subject: Economic anthropology Sierra Leone. / Sierra Leone History.
• ISBN: 1108471161, 9781108471169, 9781108454681

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GN585.S57 D54 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE