Laurence Douny erforscht im Rahmen der Anthropologie der Techniken die materialen Praktiken westafrikanischer Gemeinschaften, insbesondere die Herstellung von Wildseidengewebe und natürlichen Farbstoffen. Ihre Arbeit verbindet ethnographische Studien mit Analysen zu Nachhaltigkeit, Klimawandel und postkolonialen Verhältnissen, wobei sie den Fokus auf die Rolle von Frauen und die Bewahrung kulturellen Wissens legt. Douny untersucht, wie materielle Ressourcen wie Seide, Erde und Pflanzen in sozialen und ökologischen Kontexten Bedeutung stiften und wie diese Praktiken angesichts von Ressourcenknappheit und Umweltveränderungen resilient bleiben. Ihre Forschung trägt zum Verständnis von sozial-ökologischen Systemen, Geschlechterdynamiken und der Dekolonialisierung von Wissensproduktion bei.
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Dr. Laurence Douny
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Journal of Material Culture · DOI
This article explores some of the multiple forms and uses of Dogon domestic waste, considering daily shared experiences of the matter. It examines the implicit meanings objectified in the materiality of, and the daily praxis associated with, rubbish that the Dogon select and allocate to particular places in and out of their `home container'. These are framed within a recycled cosmology that encompasses a plurality of entangled world-views that inform us about the life cycles of people, environment and society.
Journal of Material Culture · DOI
The editors of this special issue on ‘“Making” and “Doing” the Material World’ examine some aspects of the anthropology of techniques, a relatively understudied branch of anthropology, which considers the embodied and cognitive engagement of human beings in their lived material world. They suggest that the use of new theories of embodiment, cognition and performance allows for a consideration of the role of the senses, perception, emotions and materiality in the formation of knowledgeable, gendered subjects. They argue that the Francophone and Anglophone traditions in the anthropology of techniques are complementary, despite their divisions (between and within them).
Journal of Material Culture · DOI
This article explores some aspects of Hausa wild silk embroidered gowns known as riga, interpreting these famous and prestigious attires in the light of techniques and transformative processes. The author thus highlights implicit forms of knowledge underlying material practices about, first, the wearing and layering of highly decorated gowns and, second, the process of creating silk-embroidered motifs (on the outside gown) and inked patterns (on the inside gown) that stand as the objectification and expression of charismatic power through self-display. The author proposes that Hausa wild silk-embroidered gowns constitute a material identity of power in that they materialize individual as well as group social status, prestige, fame and wealth. The empirical materials derive from ongoing fieldwork in northern Nigeria on the production and use of wild silk, a particular substance/material to which mystic properties are attributed and which plays an important role in the empowerment of riga.