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Schweitzer)[. Schweitzer](https://www.cambridge.org/core. Schweitzer) Fachinformationen oHG-Frankfurt, on 15 Apr 2025 at 06:38:26, subject to the  \nCambridge Core terms of use, available at [https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms](https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms).  \n[https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/4A94801CE53AD8DE995BE149CBE2926B](https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/4A94801CE53AD8DE995BE149CBE2926B)  \nDownloaded from [https://www.cambridge.org/core](https://www.cambridge.org/core. Schweitzer)[. Schweitzer](https://www.cambridge.org/core. Schweitzer) Fachinformationen oHG-Frankfurt, on 15 Apr 2025 at 06:38:26, subject to the  \nCambridge Core terms of use, available at [https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms](https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms).  \n[https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/4A94801CE53AD8DE995BE149CBE2926B](https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/4A94801CE53AD8DE995BE149CBE2926B)  \nLove and Violence in Sierra Leone  \nIn the decades following the civil war that took place in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, new laws were passed to rebuild the state and to prevent rape, teenage pregnancy, and domestic violence. In this ethnography, Luisa T. Schneider explores the intricate semantic, empirical, and socio-legal dynamics of love and violence in contemporary Sierra Leone, challenging the oversimplification of these phenomena.  \nSchneider underscores the limitations of imposing singular interpretations on love and violence, advocating for a nuanced, phenomenological approach that reveals how state and institutional attempts to regulate violence and loving relationships without considering local lived experience and meaning-making can yield negative consequences.  \nBy analysing how love and violence are historically constituted, experienced, and (re)produced across personal, social, legal, and political levels, this book critiques the construction of violence within gendered sexual relationships by development agencies, lawmakers, and politicians, urging them to engage with local knowledge and experience.  \nLuisa T. Schneider is a sociocultural anthropologist specialising in  \nintimacy, violence, and law. Schneider is Assistant Professor at VU Amsterdam, a published academic and public author, and advisor to policy-makers and practitioners. She has conducted ethnographic research that emphasises the importance of local knowledge for over  \nten years.  \nDownloaded from [https://www.cambridge.org/core](https://www.cambridge.org/core. Schweitzer)[. Schweitzer](https://www.cambridge.org/core. Schweitzer) Fachinformationen oHG-Frankfurt, on 15 Apr 2025 at 06:38:26, subject to the  \nCambridge Core terms of use, available at [https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms](https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms).  \n[https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/4A94801CE53AD8DE995BE149CBE2926B](https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/4A94801CE53AD8DE995BE149CBE2926B)  \nTHE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN LIBRARY  \nGeneral Editors  \nleslie bank, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa harri englund, University of Cambridge  \ndeborah james, London School of Economics and Political Science adeline masquelier, Tulane University, Louisiana  \nhelene neveu-kringelbach, University College London david pratten, University of Oxford  \nManaging Editor  \nstephanie kitchen, International African Institute, London  \nThe International African Library is a major monograph series from the International African Institute. Theoretically informed ethnographies, and studies of social relations ‘on the ground’ which are sensitive to local cultural forms, have long been central to the Institute’s publications programme. 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