Name: The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya (en Inglés)
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Author: Paul Wenzel Geissler; Ruth Jane Prince
ISBN: 9780857457936

portada The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Berghahn Books

Autor

Paul Wenzel Geissler; Ruth Jane Prince

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

444

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0857457934

ISBN13

9780857457936

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Afroamericanos
Estudios étnicos

The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya (en Inglés)

Paul Wenzel Geissler; Ruth Jane Prince (Autor) · Berghahn Books · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya (en Inglés)"

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 life. Central to such debates is a discussion of touch in the broad sense of concrete, material contact between persons. In mundane practices and in ritual acts, touch is considered to be key to the creation of bodily life as well as social continuity. Underlying the significance of material contact is its connection with growth – of persons and groups, animals, plants and the land – and the forward movement of life more generally. Under the pressure of illness and death, economic hardship and land scarcity, as well as bitter struggles about the relevance and application of Christianity and ‘Luo tradition’ in daily life, people find it difficult to agree about the role of touch in engendering growth, or indeed about the aims of growth itself.