LEADER 04047nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910452765803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-13419-1 010 $a9786613806772 010 $a0-520-95353-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520953536 035 $a(CKB)2550000000105911 035 $a(EBL)977266 035 $a(OCoLC)801363594 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000702822 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11369339 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000702822 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10687545 035 $a(PQKB)10520114 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001053943 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC977266 035 $a(OCoLC)808341835 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse52230 035 $a(DE-B1597)519450 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520953536 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL977266 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10582905 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL380677 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000105911 100 $a20120605d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aI did it to save my life$b[electronic resource] $elove and survival in Sierra Leone /$fCatherine E. Bolten 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (293 p.) 225 1 $aCalifornia series in public anthropology ;$v24 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-27378-8 311 $a0-520-27379-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Sierra Leonean emotions, Sierra Leonean war -- Understanding Makeni and nested loyalties: marginality and collaboration in the northern capital -- "I must be grateful to them for freeing me": the soldier -- "They said nobody would hide from this war": the rebel -- "I held a gun but I did not fire it": the student -- The government brought death, the rebels allowed us to live": the trader -- "It was the Lord who wanted me to stay": the evangelist -- "They really damaged me": the father -- "The RUF thought I was on their side": the politician -- Epilogue and conclusions: Makeni, May 2010. 330 $aUtilizing narratives of seven different people-soldier, rebel, student, trader, evangelist, father, and politician-I Did it To Save My Life provides fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. Individuals in the town of Makeni narrate survival through the rubric of love, and by telling their stories and bringing memory into the present, create for themselves a powerful basis on which to reaffirm the rightness of their choices and orient themselves to a livable everyday. The book illuminates a social world based on love, a deep, compassionate relationship based on material exchange and nurturing, that transcends romance and binds people together across space and through time. In situating their wartime lives firmly in this social world, they call into question the government's own narrative that Makeni residents openly collaborated with the rebel RUF during its three-year occupation of the town. Residents argue instead that it was the government's disloyalty to its people, rather than rebel invasion and occupation, which destroyed the town and forced uneasy co-existence between civilians and militants. 410 0$aCalifornia series in public anthropology ;$v24. 606 $aWar and society$zSierra Leone 607 $aSierra Leone$xHistory$yCivil War, 1991-2002$vPersonal narratives 607 $aSierra Leone$xHistory$yCivil War, 1991-2002$xPsychological aspects 607 $aSierra Leone$xHistory$yCivil War, 1991-2002$xSocial aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWar and society 676 $a966.4044 700 $aBolten$b Catherine E$g(Catherine Elizabeth),$f1976-$01038689 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452765803321 996 $aI did it to save my life$92460433 997 $aUNINA