Miracles and extraordinary experience in northern Kenya /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Straight, Bilinda, 1964-
Other Authors: Stoller, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007.
Series:Contemporary ethnography.
Subjects:
Death > Religious aspects.
Miracles > Kenya > Samburu District.
Resurrection.
Samburu (African people) > Religion.
Mort > Aspect religieux.
Miracles > Kenya > Samburu (District)
Résurrection.
Samburu (Peuple d'Afrique) > Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Death > Religious aspects
Miracles
Resurrection
Kenya > Samburu District
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Experience
  • Signs
  • Nkai
  • Latukuny
  • Noki
  • Death
  • Resurrection
  • Loip
  • Conclusion: Immediacies
  • Appendix 1. From the Derridean Gap to Theorizations of Consciousness and Forgetting
  • Appendix 2. The ''I'' Verb Stem.

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