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The Land Is Dying - Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya (Paperback)
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The Land Is Dying - Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya (Paperback)
Series: Epistemologies of Healing
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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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