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Living with Bad Surroundings - War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Sverker Finnström is a researcher at the Hugo Valentin Centre of Uppsala University. Klappentext Explores ways that people in Acholiland, Uganda struggle to control and comprehend their local moral universe during a civil war that has ravaged the region since 1986, and the role of rumors, cosmology, metaphor, and religion in their interpretation of t Zusammenfassung An ethnographic examination of how northern Ugandans understand and attempt to control their moral universe and material circumstances in the midst of civil war. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Orientations: War and culture in Uganda 1 1. Acholi worlds and the colonial encounter 29 2. Neocolonial legacies and evolving war 63 3. Rebel manifestos in context 99 4. Displacements 131 5. Wartime rumors and moral truths 167 6. Uprooting the pumpkins 197 Reorientations: Unfinished realities 233 Notes 245 Acronyms 253 References 255 Index 277

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Authors Sverker Finnstroem, Finnstrom, Sverker Finnstrom, Sverker Finnstr'om, Sverker Finnström, Sverker Finnstrom
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.03.2008
 
EAN 9780822341741
ISBN 978-0-8223-4174-1
No. of pages 304
Dimensions 162 mm x 241 mm x 24 mm
Series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
Cultures and Practice of Viole
The Cultures and Practice of Violence
Cultures and Practice of Viole
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology

Uganda, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie

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