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The Land Is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya: 5 (Epistemologies of Healing) - Tapa blanda

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Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane

 
9780857457936: The Land Is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya: 5 (Epistemologies of Healing)
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ISBN 10: 0857457934 ISBN 13: 9780857457936
Editorial: Berghahn Books, 2012

Sinopsis

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.

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Paul Wenzel Geissler teaches social anthropology at the University of Oslo and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He studied medical zoology in Hamburg and Copenhagen (Ph.D. 1998) and social anthropology in Copenhagen and Cambridge (Ph.D. 2003). Since 1993 he has worked in western Kenya, conducting first medical research and then several years of ethnographic fieldwork. Currently he is writing an ethnography of post-colonial scientific research in Kisumu, Kenya.



After studying social anthropology in London and Copenhagen, Ruth Jane Prince is presently Smuts Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in western Kenya since 1997 focusing on medical anthropology, kinship and Christianity. Her current research deals with HIV interventions and antiretroviral treatment programmes in Kenya, and related issues of global health, the political-economy of knowledge, transnationalism and the state.

The authors have co-published articles on kinship and ethics, religion and social change, and the anthropology of the body, healing and science.

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Editorial
Berghahn Books
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0857457934
ISBN 13 
9780857457936
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
444
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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