The Land Is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

by Paul Wenzel Geissler and Ruth Jane Prince

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845454812
• ISBN13: 9781845454814
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"