For money and elders : ritual, sovereignty, and the sacred in Kenya /
Many observers of Kenya's complicated history raise cause for concern, offering critiques of practices such as the use of public office for private gain and a constitutional structure that gives the executive branch lopsided influence. Yet efforts from critics and academics to diagnose the coun...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.