Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya (Contemporary Ethnography) - Softcover

Straight, Bilinda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812220927 ISBN 13: 9780812220926

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009

Synopsis

The miraculous blends with the mundane in this book as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes miracles inside the cultural logic that makes them possible, questioning how anthropology can best engage with the improbable.

About this title

Review:

"An engaging, provocative intervention in cultural theory."—Journal of the American Academy of Religion

"Straight's . . . work reminds the reader of the important ways that theory and ethnography can mutually inform and illuminate, and the book is an important contribution to the existing literature for both area specialist and the theoretically inclined."—American Anthropologist

From the Author:

Bilinda Straight is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Western Michigan University and is the editor of Women on the Verge of Home. She has worked with the Samburu in northern Kenya off and on since 1992.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0812220927
• ISBN 13: 9780812220926
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296