The Land Is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya 1845458028, 9781845458027

The Land Is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya 9781845458027

Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western

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The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought 0690744064

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Holocene Foragers, Fishers and Herders of Western Kenya 9781841714172, 9781407324227

The problem of subsistence has received little attention in East African archaeology. Various models of human subsistenc

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The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya (Eastern Africa Series, 49) 1847012558, 9781847012555

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The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya (Eastern Africa Series, 49) 1847012558, 9781847012555

Finalist for the African Studies Association's 2021 Best Book Prize. Explores the limits of law in changing unequal

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Dying to Learn: Wartime Lessons from the Western Front 9781501758478

Through careful study of the British, French, and German experiences in the First World War, Dying to Learn provides a m

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This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil 9780822391074

This on-the-ground account of a celebrated Brazilian agrarian movement highlights the contingent nature of social moveme

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Land, Freedom and Fiction: History and Ideology in Kenya 9781350221000, 9781786990709, 9781786990143

This now classic work examines the contrasting ways in which the Mau Mau struggle for land and independence in Kenya was

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The Street Is My Pulpit: Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya 0252098269, 9780252098260

To some, Christianity and hip hop seem antithetical. Not so in Kenya. There, the music of Julius Owino, aka Juliani, ble

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Is Science Western in Origin? 9789833046072

On stock Western history, science originated among the Greeks, and then developed in post-renaissance Europe. This story

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