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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blunt, Robert W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.