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The Land Is Dying - Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya (Hardcover, New)
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The Land Is Dying - Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya (Hardcover, New)
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, which by the turn of the
century had affected every aspect of sociality and pervaded
villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of
everyday life. Central to such debates is a concern with touch in
the broad sense of concrete, material contact between persons. In
mundane practices as much as 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 found it
difficult to agree about the role of touch in engendering growth,
or indeed about the aims of growth itself. Yet they drew upon
shared experiences and imaginaries in their struggles to restore a
forward direction to their lives.
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