Screen LibraryMiracles and extraordinary experience in northern kenya /
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.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2007] ©2007 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Contemporary ethnography
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 15 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812209372 |
| Index Number: | BL2480 |
| CLC: | B929.412 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author s Note -- Chapter 1. Experience -- Chapter 2. Signs -- Chapter 3. Nkai -- Chapter 4. Latukuny -- Chapter 5. Noki -- Chapter 6. Death -- Chapter 7. Resurrection -- Chapter 8. Loip -- Conclusion. Immediacies -- Appendix 1. From the Derridean Gap to Theorizations of Consciousness and Forgetting: Defending Expansive Experience Within the Play of Signs -- Appendix 2. The I Verb Stem -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. |