Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya

Informationen zum Autor By Bilinda Straight Klappentext Bilinda Straight is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Western Michigan University and is the editor of Women on the Verge of Home. She has worked with the Samburu in northern Kenya off and on since 1992. Zusammenfassung The miraculous blends with the mundane in this book as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes miracles inside the cultural logic that makes them possible! questioning how anthropology can best engage with the improbable. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Author's Note Chapter One: Experience Chapter Two: Signs Chapter Three: Nkai Chapter Four: Latukuny Chapter Five: N'goki Chapter Six: Death Chapter Seven: Resurrection Chapter Eight: Loip Chapter Nine: Conclusion Glossary Notes Appendices Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Bilinda Straight, STRAIGHT BILINDA
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2009
• EAN: 9780812220926
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2092-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Contemporary Ethnography; Contemporary Ethnography (Pape; Contemporary Ethnography; Contemporary Ethnography (Pape
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories