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Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods
from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean
rare information on private lives from the historical record. The
chapters span geographic areas to present recent ethnohistorical
research that advances our knowledge of the connections between the
public and private domains and the significance of these
connections for understanding the past as a lived experience, both
historically and in a contemporary sense. We discuss how the use of
different sources-e.g., public records, personal journals, material
culture, the built environment, letters, public performances,
etc.-can reveal different types of information about past cultural
contexts, as well as private sentiments about official culture and
society. Through an exploration of sites as varied as homes,
factories, plantations, markets, and tourism attractions we address
the public significance of private sentiments, the resilience of
bodies, and gendered interactions in historical contexts. In doing
so, this book highlights linkages between private lives and public
settings that have allowed people to continue to exist within,
adapt to, and/or resist dominant cultural narratives.
This book, based on field research in the West African country of
The Gambia, explores how domestic gun control is shaped by
international efforts and how local actors interact with
international organizations or opt not to do so. The book also
shows how the question of who can have what kind of gun under what
circumstances is an intrinsic question to modern societies across
the world, but it is seldom one that is addressed in sub-Saharan
Africa except in cases of post-conflict countries. Small arms
control and gun control are often treated as separate efforts, with
the former the domain of international actors such as the United
Nations and the latter being of concern to the domestic politics of
countries such as the United States. By focusing on a country that
has never seen the outbreak of a civil war, the book is able to
disentangle the complex roots of gun control in Africa, its origins
in colonial era legislation, its reverberations across social life,
and how it shapes contemporary understandings of groups ranging for
security guards to hunters.
Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods
from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean
rare information on private lives from the historical record. The
chapters span geographic areas to present recent ethnohistorical
research that advances our knowledge of the connections between the
public and private domains and the significance of these
connections for understanding the past as a lived experience, both
historically and in a contemporary sense. We discuss how the use of
different sources-e.g., public records, personal journals, material
culture, the built environment, letters, public performances,
etc.-can reveal different types of information about past cultural
contexts, as well as private sentiments about official culture and
society. Through an exploration of sites as varied as homes,
factories, plantations, markets, and tourism attractions we address
the public significance of private sentiments, the resilience of
bodies, and gendered interactions in historical contexts. In doing
so, this book highlights linkages between private lives and public
settings that have allowed people to continue to exist within,
adapt to, and/or resist dominant cultural narratives.
This book, based on field research in the West African country of
The Gambia, explores how domestic gun control is shaped by
international efforts and how local actors interact with
international organizations or opt not to do so. The book also
shows how the question of who can have what kind of gun under what
circumstances is an intrinsic question to modern societies across
the world, but it is seldom one that is addressed in sub-Saharan
Africa except in cases of post-conflict countries. Small arms
control and gun control are often treated as separate efforts, with
the former the domain of international actors such as the United
Nations and the latter being of concern to the domestic politics of
countries such as the United States. By focusing on a country that
has never seen the outbreak of a civil war, the book is able to
disentangle the complex roots of gun control in Africa, its origins
in colonial era legislation, its reverberations across social life,
and how it shapes contemporary understandings of groups ranging for
security guards to hunters.
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