The Land Is Dying : : Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya / / Paul Wenzel Geissler, Ruth Jane Prince.
Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (444 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: ‘Are we still together here?’
- 2. Landscapes and histories
- 3. Salvation and tradition: heaven and earth?
- PART I.
- 4. ‘Opening the way’: being at home in Uhero
- 5. Growing children: shared persons and permeable bodies
- PART II.
- 6. Order and decomposition: touch around sickness and death
- 7. Life seen: touch, vision and speech in the making of sex in Uhero
- 8. ‘Our Luo culture is sick’: identity and infection in the debate about widow inheritance
- PART III.
- 9. ‘How can we drink his tea without killing a bull?’ – Funerary ceremony and matters of remembrance
- 10. ‘The land is dying’ – traces and monuments in the village landscape
- 11. Contingency, creativity and difference in western Kenya
- Bibliography
- Index