Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya
The Samburu of northern Kenya struggle to maintain their pastoral way of life as drought and the side effects of globalization threaten both their livestock and their livelihood. Mirroring this divide between survival and ruin are the lines between the self and the other, the living and the dead, "this side" and inia bata, "that side." Cultural anthropologist Bilinda Straight, who has lived with the Samburu for extended periods since the 1990s, bears witness to Samburu life and death in...
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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.
List of Figures Author's NoteChapter One: Experience Chapter Two: Signs Chapter Three: Nkai Chapter Four: Latukuny Chapter Five: N'goki Chapter Six: Death Chapter Seven: Resurrection Chapter Eight: Loip Chapter Nine: ConclusionGlossary Notes Appendices Bibliography Index
\ From the Publisher"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\ \ \
