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Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrative matter.
- Agamben, Georgio, 51, 129n9
- Aisha, 19, 68, 69, 80–88, 90, 121, 123
- Alhassan, 8, 25, 57, 109
- Alimamy, 47–50, 123
- ambiguity, 58, 65, 70, 71, 99, 101, 130n12, 133n6
- ambiguous houses, 57, 58–60. See also home routines
- American Revolutionary War, 31
- Andrew, 67–70, 71
- anthropological research, 4, 17; in crisis, 105–7; flexibility in, 113–17; participant observation, 107–13; theory from the home in, 117–20
- Antigone, 134n4 (ch. 5)
- Atlantic slave trade. See slavery
- author’s positionality, 1, 110–14, 129n4, 135n8. See also anthropological research
- baby-naming ceremonies, 27, 85–86, 90. See also rituals
- bad death, 91. See also death
- Bai Bureh, 32
- Balloon Burst (young apprentice), 39, 40, 41, 53–54
- Bangura, James, 19, 65, 81–88, 90, 93, 95, 121, 123
- Bangura family, 63–67
- Banton, Michael, 27
- Benjamin, Walter, 51–52
- big data, 135n1
- bike parks, 43
- Bike Riders Union (BRU), 18, 41–46
- “black” and “white” social orders, 17, 92, 99–103, 124
- black loyalists, 31
- Brima, 67–72, 80–81, 85
- British colonialism, 6, 8, 18, 21, 31–34. See also slavery
- burials: “black” and “white” coding of, 92, 99–103, 124; Ebola and state support of, 78; of Marie, 19, 90–98, 99, 101; of Rachel, 19, 98, 99, 103, 104; teams for, 7, 47–49, 91–93. See also death; rituals
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 7, 106
- cholera, 36
- civil war, 6, 21, 41, 76
- Cohen, Abner, 91
- Cole, Mr., 67–68
- colonialism, 6, 8, 18, 21, 31–34. See also slavery
- Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, 31
- confiscated motor bikes, 44
- conflicts of care, 70–72
- Congo Town neighborhood, Freetown, 17. See also Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Councilor (Sierra Leone Commercial Bike Riders Union official), 43–44, 47, 53
- COVID-19 pandemic, 13, 22, 77, 117–18, 121, 126, 133n1 (ch. 4)
- credit unions (esusu), 40, 81, 83–84
- crisis, as context, 9–10, 104, 125–26. See also emergencies: overview; public authority and crisis; states of emergency declaration
- crisis as context, 9, 129n7
- curfews, 3, 13, 40, 46, 57, 79, 84
- death: bad/good death, 19, 91; black/white, 92; of Marie, 90–97; of Mr. Cole, 67–68; non-Ebola related, 3, 33, 41, 47, 49; rituals of, 134n3 (ch. 5), 135n10; slow death, 30; state policies and strategies on, 78; statistics on, 3. See also burials
- disease outbreaks, 32–33. See also COVID-19 pandemic; Ebola epidemic in West Africa (2014–2016), overview
- Ebola Anthropology Initiative, 106, 114
- Ebola Anthropology Response Platform, 106, 114
- Ebola epidemic in West Africa (2014–2016): overview, 1, 2, 3–4, 7–9, 33. See also emergencies: overview
- Ebola money, 8, 47–50, 78, 134n3 (ch. 4)
- Ebola treatment center, 122
- Ebola virus, 3, 4, 79, 104, 133n2
- embodied experiences, 42, 72, 101, 110, 112, 120, 123, 127, 133n10
- emergencies: overview, 1–8, 129n8. See also Ebola epidemic in West Africa (2014–2016): overview; states of emergency declaration
- esusu (rotating credit unions), 40, 81, 83–84
- ethnographic fieldwork. See anthropological research
- extraordinary ordinary, 19, 77–80, 87, 89, 124. See also ordinary life
- familial relationships, 1, 7, 10–14, 55. See also kinship; names of specific persons
- family-based rituals. See rituals
- family disease, as concept, 12–13. See also kinship
- family gatherings, 13. See also burials; rituals
- Farmer, Paul, 52, 131n20, 133n2
- Fatu, 67–70, 72
- flexibility, 113–17
- flooding, 25, 26
- Foday: Ebola and ordinary life of, 10, 29; grandfather’s migration story, 17, 23–28; home of, as research site, 2–3, 5, 108, 110; room and parlor of, 60–63, 71; work effects of slavery on, 37; work of, 39, 109
- foreign aid and interventions, 20–21, 36–37, 123, 132n8, 132n30, 134n15, 135nn17–18. See also names of specific agencies
- Francis, 95
- Freetown, Sierra Leone, 6, 18, 102–3, 125–26, 131n5. See also Congo Town neighborhood, Freetown; Sierra Leone
- Freetown City Council, 97–98
- health emergencies, 2. See also Ebola epidemic in West Africa (2014–2016): overview; emergencies: overview; medical care
- History of Sierra Leone (Fyfe), 26, 32–33
- HIV/AIDS, 36, 57, 130n22, 132n28
- Holocaust, 113
- home routines, 55–58. See also ordinary life
- humanitarian aid. See foreign aid and interventions
- Human Right (motorbike taxi driver), 39–42, 46, 53–54
- Hut Tax War, 32
- Jamaican Maroons, 31
- Kadiatu, 65–67, 71, 72, 83
- Kamara, Mr., 47–49
- kasanka, 96
- Kenya, 34
- kinship: vs. business, 56, 59, 63, 70–72, 80, 88, 100, 124; defined, 12; in Freetown, about, 27, 30, 37; of Kadiatu, 66; theory of, 64, 119. See also familial relationships
- Koroma, Ernest Bai, 74–75
- Krio people, 26–27, 32–34, 37, 88, 91, 102
- Kuper, Adam, 119
- Napoleonic Wars, 31
- National Ebola Response Centre, 21, 46, 74
- National Power Authority, 81, 110
- Ndembu, 16
- neighborliness, 131n6
- “new normal,” as term, 77. See also extraordinary ordinary
- Nigerian military, 35
- normal. See extraordinary ordinary; “new normal,” as term; ordinary life
- okada, as term, 40
- okada industry, 43–47, 52
- One Brother association, 45
- ordinary life, 6–7, 14–17, 123–25, 130n23. See also extraordinary ordinary; home routines
- Rabinow, Paul, 114
- Rachel, 19, 98, 99, 103, 104
- Radisson Blu Hotel, Freetown, 17, 20
- Reflection on Fieldwork in Morocco (Rabinow), 114
- religion, 27, 28, 85, 86, 88, 91, 134n14
- research methods, 4, 17, 105–20
- Revolutionary United Front (RUF), 35
- Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 116
- rituals: burials, 7, 13, 47–49, 78, 94–96; of death, 134n3 (ch. 5), 135n10; of life crisis, 80–88; for naming babies, 27, 85–86, 90
- romantic relationships, 1, 7. See also names of specific persons
- rural-urban migration, 25, 27
- sababu, 12, 76
- Sally, 67, 68, 69, 70
- Sam, 61–63, 66, 71
- Schneider, David, 119
- secularism, 22, 28, 134n14
- self-reliance, 83–84
- The Shock Doctrine (Klein), 52
- Sierra Leone: Ebola epidemic in, 3; foreign interventions in, 20–21; independence of, 6; slavery in, 6, 8, 16, 18, 21, 29–31, 101
- Sierra Leone Commercial Bike Riders Union (BRU), 18, 41–46
- Sierra Leone Company, 31
- slavery, 6, 8, 16, 18, 21, 29–31, 101. See also British colonialism
- slow death, 30. See also death
- Spanish flu, 33, 77, 131n20
- Special Court for Sierra Leone, 7, 21
- state of exception, 129n9
- states of emergency declaration, 3, 8, 9, 20, 46, 51–54, 81, 84, 113, 129n9. See also crisis, as context; emergencies: overview
- Stevens, Siaka, 34
- stigmatization, 13, 56, 57, 70, 72, 133n4
- Strasser, Valentine, 35
- Susan, 75, 82–83
- waithood, 9, 129n11. See also young people in Africa, overview
- Waterloo Cemetery, 93, 94
- wekin, 96, 98
- West African City: A Study of Tribal Life in Freetown (Banton), 27
- “white” and “black” social orders, 17, 92, 99–103, 124
- witchcraft, 13–14, 57, 62, 69, 70, 97, 110, 133n8
- World Bank, 11, 42, 45
- World Health Organization, 3, 7, 9, 20, 37, 106