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This book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft and its contentious relationship with the state in colonial Kenya.
This book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft and its contentious relationship with the state in colonial Kenya.
Über den Autor
Katherine Luongo received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2003-4, she held a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to conduct archival and ethnographic research in Kenya and was a research associate at the Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique in Nairobi. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University in Boston. Luongo's articles have appeared in History in Africa, African Affairs, The Journal of Eastern African Studies and the Cahiers d'Études africaines. Her research and teaching interests include the occult, legal systems and anthropological history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. Clans and councils, caravans and conquest, cosmology and colonialism: Ukambani in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 3. Understanding uoi, uwe, and kithitu in Ukambani; 4. The 'cosmology' of the colonial state; 5. The Wakamba witch trials: a witch-murder in 1930s Kenya; 6. Witchcraft, murder, and death sentences after Rex v. Kumwaka; 7. The world of oathing and witchcraft in Mau Mau-era machakos; 8. Cleansing Ukambani witches; 9. Epilogue.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
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Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
Rubrik: | Esoterik & Anthroposophie |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9781107529847 |
ISBN-10: | 1107529840 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Luongo, Katherine |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 16 mm |
Von/Mit: | Katherine Luongo |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 22.12.2014 |
Gewicht: | 0,434 kg |
Über den Autor
Katherine Luongo received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2003-4, she held a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to conduct archival and ethnographic research in Kenya and was a research associate at the Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique in Nairobi. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University in Boston. Luongo's articles have appeared in History in Africa, African Affairs, The Journal of Eastern African Studies and the Cahiers d'Études africaines. Her research and teaching interests include the occult, legal systems and anthropological history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. Clans and councils, caravans and conquest, cosmology and colonialism: Ukambani in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 3. Understanding uoi, uwe, and kithitu in Ukambani; 4. The 'cosmology' of the colonial state; 5. The Wakamba witch trials: a witch-murder in 1930s Kenya; 6. Witchcraft, murder, and death sentences after Rex v. Kumwaka; 7. The world of oathing and witchcraft in Mau Mau-era machakos; 8. Cleansing Ukambani witches; 9. Epilogue.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
Rubrik: | Esoterik & Anthroposophie |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9781107529847 |
ISBN-10: | 1107529840 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Luongo, Katherine |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 16 mm |
Von/Mit: | Katherine Luongo |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 22.12.2014 |
Gewicht: | 0,434 kg |
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