I did it to save my life : love and survival in Sierra Leone

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Label

I did it to save my life : love and survival in Sierra Leone

Title remainder

love and survival in Sierra Leone

Statement of responsibility

Catherine E. Bolten

Creator

• Bolten, Catherine E., (Catherine Elizabeth), 1976-

Subject

• Civil War (Sierra Leone : 1991-2002)
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• HISTORY -- Africa -- West
• History
• Personal narratives
• Psychological aspects
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
• Sierra Leone
• Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Personal narratives
• Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Psychological aspects
• Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Social aspects
• Social aspects
• War and society
• War and society -- Sierra Leone
• 1991-2002

Genre

• Electronic books
• History
• Personal narratives
• Electronic book

Language

eng

Summary

"Utilizing narratives of seven different people--soldier, rebel, student, trader, evangelist, father, and politician--I Did it To Save My Life provides fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. Individuals in the town of Makeni narrate survival through the rubric of love, and by telling their stories and bringing memory into the present, create for themselves a powerful basis on which to reaffirm the rightness of their choices and orient themselves to a livable everyday. The book illuminates a social world based on love, a deep, compassionate relationship based on material exchange and nurturing, that transcends romance and binds people together across space and through time. In situating their wartime lives firmly in this social world, they call into question the government's own narrative that Makeni residents openly collaborated with the rebel RUF during its three-year occupation of the town. Residents argue instead that it was the government's disloyalty to its people, rather than rebel invasion and occupation, which destroyed the town and forced uneasy co-existence between civilians and militants"--Provided by publisher

Member of

• California series in public anthropology, 24

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

E7B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

California series in public anthropology

Series volume

24