Land Is Dying

Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

Autor: Paul Wenzel Geissler, Ruth Jane Prince

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Berghahn Books

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Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speakin...

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Autor

Paul Wenzel Geissler, Ruth Jane Prince

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2010

Stránek

444

EAN

9781845454814

ISBN

1845454812

Enbook ID

05097915

Vydavatel

Berghahn Books

Hmotnost

720

Rozměry

161 x 238 x 29

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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, which by the turn of the century had affected every aspect of sociality and pervaded villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life. Central to such debates is a concern with touch in the broad sense of concrete, material contact between persons. In mundane practices as much as in ritual acts, touch is considered to be key to the creation of bodily life as well as social continuity. Underlying the significance of material contact is its connection with growth - of persons and groups, animals, plants and the land - and the forward movement of life more generally. Under the pressure of illness and death, economic hardship and land scarcity, as well as bitter struggles about the relevance and application of Christianity and "Luo tradition" in daily life, people found it difficult to agree about the role of touch in engendering growth, or indeed about the aims of growth itself. Yet they drew upon shared experiences and imaginaries in their struggles to restore a forward direction to their lives.

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