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The Land Is Dying Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

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Erscheinungsdatum

01.06.2010

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Englisch

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.06.2010

Abbildungen

Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert, Karten

Verlag

Ingram Publishers Services

Seitenzahl

444

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16,1/2,8 cm

Gewicht

828 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-84545-481-4

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  • Produktbild: The Land Is Dying

  • Table of illustrations
    Acknowledgements

    Chapter 1. Introduction: "Are we still together here?"

    • A community at the end of the world
    • The death of today
    • Growing relations
    • Being together
    • Growth
    • Touch
    • Searching for another social practice
    • Engaging boundaries
    • Hygiene
    • Knowing boundaries
    • Changing perspectives?
    • Coming together
    • Visiting

    Chapter 2. Landscapes and histories

    • Returns
    • A road in time
    • Kisumu
    • Driving out Bondo District
    • The lake
    • Piny Luo - 'Luoland'
    • A 'tribe'
    • Luo sociality
    • The reserve
    • Return to Uhero Yimbo Muthurwa
    • Making Uhero village
    • (Re-)Settlement
    • Belonging and ownership
    • A modern Luo village
    • 'Down' into the village
    • 'Up' and 'down' KaOkoth
    • Alternative 'modernities': the beach and 'Jerusalem'
    • KaOgumba

    Chapter 3. Salvation and Tradition: heaven and earth?

    • Dichotomies in everyday life
    • Salvation
    • Strong Christians
    • Saved life
    • Saved and others
    • Faith in purity
    • Tradition
    • The Luo rules
    • 'Born-again'
    • Traditionalism
    • Traditionalism, Christianity and The West
    • Customary everyday life
    • Searching ways
    • Tradition in everyday life
    • Everyday ritual
    • The absence of ritual
    • The omnipresence of ritual

    PART ONE

    Chapter 4. 'Opening the way': being at home in Uhero

    • Introduction
    • "Our culture says that one must make a home"
    • Relational flows: embedding growth in the home
    • Tom's new home
    • Moving forward - directions
    • Openings and closures
    • Order and sequence
    • Complementarity and growth: coming together in the house
    • Making a house
    • Sharing the gendered house
    • The living house
    • Gender, generation and growth
    • Struggling against implication
    • The home in heaven
    • 'The rules of the home'
    • Powers of explication
    • Practicing rules
    • Cementing relations
    • Traditionalism and other kinds of ethnography

    5. Growing children: shared persons and permeable bodies

    • Introduction
    • Sharing
    • Sharing or exchange?
    • Sharing food
    • Food, blood and kinship
    • 'The child is of the mother'
    • Changed foods and relations
    • Sharing and dividing nurture
    • Shared bodies
    • Illnesses of infancy and their treatment
    • Evil eye and spirits
    • Medical pluralism?
    • Herbal medicines
    • Cleanness and dirt
    • Sharing names
    • Being named after
    • Being called
    • Sharing names and naming shares
    • Conclusion

    PART TWO

    Chapter 6. Order and decomposition: touch around sickness and death

    • Introduction
    • Otoyo's home
    • The sickness of a daughter
    • Return of a daughter
    • Kwer and chira
    • Continuity and contingency
    • Avoiding the rules
    • Treating chira
    • Caring
    • The death of a husband
    • Expected death
    • "She should remember her love!"
    • Death
    • The funeral
    • The dead body
    • Loving people
    • Conclusion

    Chapter 7. 'Life Seen': touch, vision and speech in the making of sex in Uhero

    • Introduction
    • Earthly ethics and Christian morality
    • Riwruok
    • Riwruok: outside intentionality
    • Chira: Growth and directionality
    • Chodo and luor: continuity and change
    • Cleanness: Sex and separation
    • The proliferation of 'Sex'
    • AIDS and chira
    • The fight against AIDS
    • Pornography - 'bad things'
    • Conclusion

    Chapter 8. "Our Luo culture is sick": identity and infection in the debate about widow inheritance

    • Introduction
    • Testing positive
    • Becoming a widow
    • Contentious practices
    • A tough head
    • Tero
    • Independence
    • Alone
    • Inheritance and infection
    • Past and present tero
    • Fighting tero
    • Deprivation and property
    • Inheriting HIV - fears about women's sexuality and social reproduction
    • Turning tero into a business
    • Ambiguous heritage: Tero as source of identity and infection
    • 'Our Luo culture is sick'
    • 'The most elaborate and solemn ritual': tero is our culture
    • Sanitising Luo culture?
    • Conclusion

    PART THREE

    Chapter 9. "How can we drink his tea without killing a bull?" - funerary ceremony and matters of remembrance

    • Introduction
    • Funerary ceremonies
    • Funerals in Uhero
    • Funeral commensality
    • Returning to the funeral
    • Osure's sawo
    • An Earthly feast
    • Rebekka
    • Eating the sawo
    • Traces of the past
    • 'Sides'
    • Baba Winston's memorial
    • A Christian funerary celebration
    • Debates
    • The service
    • Remembrance
    • Conclusion

    Chapter 10. "The land is dying" - Traces and monuments in the village landscape

    • Introduction
    • Cutting the land
    • Ownership
    • Land, paper and power
    • Living on the land
    • Gardens and farms
    • The bush
    • Fences
    • At home
    • Traces and inscriptions
    • Getting one's land - finding one's place
    • Conclusion

    Chapter 11. Contingency, creativity and difference in western Kenya

    • Creative difference
    • Old and new dealings with hybridity
    • "Are we still together here?"
    • Postscript
    • Ka-Ogumba 2007

    Bibliography
    Books and Articles
    Newspaper articles and electronic media
    Music
    Index