Coastal Sierra Leone materiality and the unseen in Maritime West Africa

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 intim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Diggins, Jennifer, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Cambridge, United Kingdom: International African Institute ; Cambrige University Press [2018]
Colección:The international African library ; 55.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39774582*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Context, history, methods
  • Economic runaways
  • Plantain Island sirens
  • 'Potato rope' families
  • Occult economies and hidden topographies
  • Material words
  • Conclusion.