Email from Ngeti: An Ethnography of Sorcery, Redemption, and Friendship in Global Africa

by James H. Smith and Ngeti Mwadime

Book Overview

Email from Ngeti is a captivating story of sorcery, redemption, and transnational friendship in the globalized twenty-first century. When the anthropologist James Smith returns to Kenya to begin fieldwork for a new research project, he meets Ngeti Mwadime, a young man from the Taita Hills who is as interested in the United States as Smith is in Taita. Ngeti possesses a savvy sense of humor and an unusual command of the English language, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520281128
• ISBN13: 9780520281127
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"