Miracles and extraordinary experience in northern Kenya /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | Contemporary ethnography.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780812209372 0812209370 9780812220926 0812220927 |