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200 10$aI did it to save my life$b[electronic resource] $elove and survival in Sierra Leone /$fCatherine E. Bolten
205   $a1st ed.
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
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610   $anonfiction accounts.
610   $aovercoming trauma.
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610   $apoliticians.
610   $apower of love.
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610   $asierra leone.
610   $asierra leoneans.
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610   $asocial world.
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610   $atrue stories.
610   $aviolence.
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