Ghosts of Kanungu

Fertility, Secrecy & Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa

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Vokes, Richard

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback

256 Seiten

Englisch

Boydell & Brewererschienen am17.10.2013

Shortlisted for the Herskovits Award, this book throws light on secrecy and violence in Uganda, Rwanda and the Great Lakes area of East Africa.mehr

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KlappentextShortlisted for the Herskovits Award, this book throws light on secrecy and violence in Uganda, Rwanda and the Great Lakes area of East Africa.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-84701-072-8

ProduktartTaschenbuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

FormatTrade Paperback (USA)

Verlag

Boydell & Brewer

Erscheinungsjahr2013

Erscheinungsdatum17.10.2013

Seiten256 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 154 mm, Höhe 233 mm, Dicke 20 mm

Gewicht404 g

Artikel-Nr.28625082

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: The End as a BeginningIntroductionOn Fertility & MisfortuneThe Many Lives of the Nyabingi SpiritGenesis: Building the NetworkNumbers: Religion in the Time of AIDSChronicles: The History of an African-Initiated ChurchRevelation: The Last Days of the MRTCEpilogueAppendix: Marian Literature Used by the MRTCmehr

Kritik

'a compelling account of the tragic events that hindsight suggests were to culminate in 2000 with the deaths of some hundreds of members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandmants of God in the south-west of Uganda. . This is amongst the outstanding Africanist ethnographies of recent years: a splendid combination of ethnographic investigation with the evaluation of texts and images, and a significant addition to the literature on African-initiated Churches.' Richard Fardon, SOAS, University of London, AFRICAN AFFAIRS 'a tour de force in historical ethnography and anthropological detective work... a deftly crafted account of gender relations, changes in household structure, exchange networks, cults of affliction, Roman Catholic history, the consequences of the AIDS epidemic, and the rise of New Christianity, all beautifully contextualized in the ethnography of the Ankole and Kiga people of southwestern Uganda. ... All of this makes the book useful and accessible to a wide constituency in Africa and beyond. ' Susan Reynolds Whyte, University of Copenhagen, Ethnos: Journal of Anthropologymehr