The authors of this highly original book set out to remove the
persistent boundary between the authors and readers of ethnography
on one hand and the subjects of ethnography on the other - those
who observe and those who are observed. The authors use stories to
reveal Siaya, the Luo-speaking area of Western Kenya down near the
Lake but still surprisingly vulnerable to drought. There are the
stories of survival by a woman with her carpenter husband in
Nairobi, there is the launching of a boat as bride into the Lake
and there is the great Boro Christmas disco riot. The book finishes
with an Afterword on the burial of the lawyer S. M. Otiono that
divided its whole of Kenya. It is both written about and for the
Luo. It brings together Luo ideas and debates about their own past
and present with findings, arguments and questions produced about
this \u201cother people;\u201d by outside scholars writing in their
own disciplines. Among the Luo, what constitutes culture, what is
correct behavior, what is history, are questions that are heavily
fought over. This is one of those rare books that makes students
and other interested individuals question their own cultural
preconceptions and what are the genuine concerns of academic
disciplines.
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