Email from Ngeti : an ethnography of sorcery, redemption, and friendship in global Africa /

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Email from Ngeti is a captivating story of sorcery, redemption, and transnational friendship in the globalized twenty-first century. When the anthropologist James Smith returns to Kenya to begin fieldwork for a new research project, he meets Ngeti Mwadime, a young man from the Taita Hills who is as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Smith, James H., 1970- (Autor), Mwadime, Ngeti, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
Temas:
Taita (African people) > Social life and customs.
Taita (African people) > Religious life.
Witchcraft > Kenya > Taita Hills.
Taita (Peuple d'Afrique) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Taita (Peuple d'Afrique) > Vie religieuse.
Sorcellerie > Kenya > Taita, Collines de.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Manners and customs
Witchcraft
Alltag
Amerikaner
Hexenglaube
Kenianer
Taita
Taita Hills (Kenya) > Social life and customs.
Taita, Collines de (Kenya) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Kenya > Taita Hills
Kenia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Email from Ngeti; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Emails from the Field: An Introduction; 2 English Makes You See Far; 3 God Helps Those That Help Themselves; 4 Good Ants, Bad Milk, and Ugly Deeds; 5 The Power of Prayer; 6 Works and Days; 7 A Confrontation; 8 Reflections; Appendix of Names; Notes; Bibliography.

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