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.