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For Money and Elders
- Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya
Engelsk Hardback
For Money and Elders
- Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya
Engelsk Hardback

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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 country's problems do not often consider what these fiscal and political issues mean to ordinary Kenyans. How do Kenyans express their own political understandings, make sense of governance, and articulate what they expect from their leaders? In For Money and Elders, Robert Blunt addresses these questions by turning to the political, economic, and religious signs in circulation in Kenya today. He examines Kenyans attempt to make sense of political instability caused by the uncertainty of authority behind everything from currency to title deeds. When the symbolic order of a society is up for grabs, he shows, violence may seem like an expedient way to enforce the authority of signs. Drawing on fertile concepts of sovereignty, elderhood, counterfeiting, acephaly, and more, Blunt explores phenomena as diverse as the destabilization of ritual "oaths," public anxieties about Satanism with the advent of democratic reform, and contemporary mistrust of state currency. The result is a fascinating glimpse into Kenya's past and present and a penetrating reflection on meanings of violence in African politics.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
216
ISBN-13:
9780226655611
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022665561X
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Udg. Dato:
22 okt 2019
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
130mm
Højde:
219mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
22 okt 2019
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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