Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Staging politics in Kenya; 2. Shattered silences: political culture and 'democracy' in the early 1990s; 3. Open secrets: everyday forms of domination before 1990; 4. Moral economy and the quest for wealth in central Kenya since the late nineteenth century; 5. The dove and the castor nut: Embu household economy in the 1980s; 6. Conclusions: 'the showpiece of an hour'.

Summary

Once the major success story of a troubled continuent, Kenya came in the early 1990s to be ragarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them, in a multi-scale and multi-disciplinary exploration of the culture of modern Kenyan politics.

Product details

• Authors: Angelique Haugerud, Haugerud Angelique
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 11.05.1995
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780521470599
• ISBN: 978-0-521-47059-9
• Pages: 284
• Series: African Studies Series > 84; African Studies
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Kenya, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Politics & government, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology