The Underneath of Things
Subtitle: Violence, History, and the Everyday in Sierra Leone
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780520225435
Subjects: African history: from c 1900 -; African studies; Cultural studies; Ethnography; Political control & freedoms; Sex role; Kpuawala; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Violence in Society; Sociology; Sierra Leone; Africa - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Folklore & Mythology; Material culture; Mende (African people); Social life and customs
First sentence: Like other parts of postcolonial Africa, the natural landscape of Sierra Leone was littered in the 1980s with relics-traces left behind by the colonial state and its modernizing project.