For money and elders : ritual, sovereignty, and the sacred in Kenya /
Blunt, Robert W.,
For money and elders : ritual, sovereignty, and the sacred in Kenya / Robert W. Blunt. - 239 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.
Kenyatta's lament: the transformation of ritual ideologies in colonial Kenya -- Inflationary rituals: the Mau Mau rebellion -- Old age and money: the general numismatics of independent Kenya -- "Satan is an imitator": Kenya's recent cosmology of corruption -- Corruptus interruptus: the limits of transactional imaginaries of Moi's Kenya -- (Not) seeing is believing: ethnicity, trauma, and the senses in Kenya's 2007 postelection violence.
9780226655611 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226655758 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2019012197
Kenya--Politics and government--20th century.
Kenya--Politics and government--21st century.
Kenya--Religion.
DT433.575 / .B595 2019
967.62/03
For money and elders : ritual, sovereignty, and the sacred in Kenya / Robert W. Blunt. - 239 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.
Kenyatta's lament: the transformation of ritual ideologies in colonial Kenya -- Inflationary rituals: the Mau Mau rebellion -- Old age and money: the general numismatics of independent Kenya -- "Satan is an imitator": Kenya's recent cosmology of corruption -- Corruptus interruptus: the limits of transactional imaginaries of Moi's Kenya -- (Not) seeing is believing: ethnicity, trauma, and the senses in Kenya's 2007 postelection violence.
9780226655611 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226655758 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2019012197
Kenya--Politics and government--20th century.
Kenya--Politics and government--21st century.
Kenya--Religion.
DT433.575 / .B595 2019
967.62/03