Coastal Sierra Leone: Materiality and the Unseen in Maritime West Africa
- Submitting institution
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Oxford Brookes University
- Unit of assessment
- 14 - Geography and Environmental Studies
- Output identifier
- 185744519
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108555647
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108471169
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 100,000-word monograph builds on ten years' literature-based and ethnographic research exploring the intersection of morality and economy in Sierra Leone. It traces the tensions between two moral systems: a precarious commercial fishing economy and a ‘traditional’ economy remembered as profoundly exploitative. Exploring these tensions through several ethnographic lenses, the monograph extends knowledge on gender, youth, and kinship in Africa. The book challenges scholarly wisdom on several further fronts, including the nature of witchcraft, and the precise relationship of secrecy and power in Sierra Leone. It received the Amaury Talbot Prize and was shortlisted for the Eliot P. Skinner Award.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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