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

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