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The land is dying : contingency, creativity and conflict in western Kenya /
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 affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2010.
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| Collection: | Epistemologies of healing ;
v. 5. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 1. Introduction: `Are we still together here?'
- community at the end of the world
- death of today
- Growing relations
- Being together
- Growth
- Touch
- Searching for another social practice: contingency, creativity and difference
- Engaging boundaries
- Hygiene
- Knowing boundaries
- Changing perspectives?
- Coming together
- Visiting
- 2. Landscapes and histories
- Returns
- road in time
- Kisumu
- Driving out
- Bondo district
- lake
- Piny Luo
- `Luoland'
- `tribe'
- Luo sociality
- reserve
- Return to Uhero
- Yimbo
- Muthurwa
- Making Uhero village
- (Re)Settlement
- Belonging and ownership
- modern Luo village
- `Down' into the village
- `Up' and `down'
- KaOkoth
- Alternative `modernities': the beach and `Jerusalem'
- KaOgumba
- 3. Salvation and tradition: heaven and earth?
- Dichotomies in everyday life
- Salvation
- Strong Christians
- Saved life
- Saved and others
- Faith in purity
- Tradition
- Luo rules
- `Born-again' Traditionalism
- Traditionalism, Christianity and the West
- Customary everyday life
- Searching ways
- Tradition in everyday life
- Everyday ritual
- absence of ritual
- omnipresence of ritual
- PART I
- 4. `Opening the way': being at home in Uhero
- Introduction
- `Our culture says that one must make a home'
- Embeding growth in the home
- Tom's new home
- Moving forward
- directions
- Openings and closures
- Order and sequence
- Coming together in the house
- Making a house
- Sharing the gendered house
- living house
- Gender, generation and growth
- Struggling against implication
- home in heaven
- `The rules of the home'
- Powers of explication
- Practising 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 II
- 6. Order and decomposition: touch around sickness and death
- Introduction
- Otoyo's home
- sickness of a daughter
- Return of a daughter
- Kwer and chira
- Continuity and contingency
- Avoiding the rules
- Treating chira
- Caring
- death of a husband
- Expected death
- `She should remember her love!'
- Death
- funeral
- dead body
- Loving people
- Conclusion
- 7. Life seen: touch, vision and speech in the making of sex in Uhero
- Introduction
- Earthly ethics and Christian morality
- Riwrouk
- Riwruok: outside intentionality
- Chira: growth and directionality
- Chodo and luor: continuity and change
- Cleanness: sex and separation
- proliferation of `sex'
- AIDS and chira
- fight against AIDS
- Pornography
- `bad things'
- Conclusion
- 8. `Our Luo culture is sick': identity and infection in the debate about widow inheritance
- Introduction
- Testing positive
- Becoming a widow
- Contentious practices
- 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 III
- 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
- Earthly feast
- Rebekka
- Eating the sawo
- Traces of the past
- `Sides'
- Baba Winstons memorial
- Christian funerary celebration
- Debates
- service
- Remembrance
- Conclusion
- 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
- bush
- Fences
- At home
- Traces and inscriptions
- Getting ones land
- finding one's place
- Conclusion
- 11. Contingency, creativity and difference in western Kenya
- Creative difference
- Old and new dealings with hybridity
- `Are we still together here?'
- Postscript
- KaOgumba and KaOkoth 2008
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Books and articles
- Newspaper articles and electronic media
- Websites
- Music.