Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Transcription Notes -- 1. Living in a Landscape of Scarcity: A Materiality Approach -- 2. 'Making and Doing' Dogon Microcosmology: Some Ethnographic, Methodological, and Conceptual Background -- 3. Conceptual Boundaries and Inside/Outside Dialectics: A Dwelling Process -- 4. The Inside of the Village: Material Symbolism and Building Process -- 5. The Outside of the Village as a 'Life-Giving' Reservoir -- 6. Dogon 'Weather World': Local Conceptions of Rain and Wind -- 7. The Compound: Fixing, Gathering, and Enclosing the Everyday -- 8. Domestic Waste: Doing and Undoing the Compound -- 9. Making an Earth Granary: Embedded and Embodied Technology -- 10. Pandora's Granary: Material Practices of Concealment -- 11. A Microcosmology in a Millet Grain: Cooking Techniques and Eating Habits -- 12. Cosmological Matters: Toward a Philosophy of Containment -- Appendix A. Dogon's Identity: From Immutability to Cultural Diversities -- Appendix B. Dogon Mande Origin through Oral History -- Appendix C. Dogon Exoticism: From Ancient Egypt to Outer Space -- Appendix D. Challenging Griaule's Work: A Brief Overview of Dogon Studies -- Appendix E. Methodology's Development: Doing Fieldwork in the Dogon Region (Pre-Malian Crisis, 2012) -- Appendix F. The Tale of the Foundation of Tiréli -- Notes -- Glossary of Dogon Terms -- References -- Index -- About the Author.