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Laibon

Author : Elliot M. Fratkin
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759120676
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Laibon written by Elliot M. Fratkin and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliot Fratkin shares the story of his early anthropological fieldwork in Kenya in the 1970s. Using his fieldnotes and letters home to bring to life the voices of those he met, Fratkin invites the reader to experience his cross-cultural friendships with the enigmatic laibon (a diviner and healer of the Samburu and Maasai peoples) Lonyoki, his family, and the people of the nomadic community of Lukumai. Fratkin participated in the daily lives of the Ariaal livestock herders and accompanied the laibon as he performed divination and healing rituals throughout Marsabit and Samburu Districts. After Fratkin reunited Lonyoki with his son and wife, Lonyoki adopted Fratkin into his family, and Fratkin continues his close friendship with Lonyoki's son Lembalen today. Black-and-white photographs, a guide to the characters, words, and places, and a list of suggested readings supplement the engaging narrative. Laibon is more than a memoir; it delves into nitty-gritty details of fieldwork, speaks to larger questions about ethnographic research, and provides unparalleled insight into the world of the laibon.

Divination and Healing

Author : Michael Winkelman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816550573
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Divination and Healing written by Michael Winkelman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divination is an important feature of cultures all over the world. While some may still question the efficacy of divination systems, they continue to serve their communities by diagnosing ailments, prescribing healing treatments, and solving problems. Yet despite their universality, there are relatively few comprehensive studies of divination systems. This volume seeks to fill this gap regarding the use of divination in healing. Here some of the world’s leading authorities draw on their own fieldwork and participation in ritual to present detailed case studies, demonstrating that divination rituals can have therapeutic effects. As the contributors examine the systems of knowledge that divination articulates and survey the varieties of divinatory experience, they seek to analyze divination as an epistemological system, as a social process, and as a therapeutic endeavor. While some of their findings reinforce traditional assumptions about the importance of social control, spirit relations, and community support in the divination process, the authors place these considerations within new epistemological frameworks that emphasize the use of alternative modes of knowing. In this wide-ranging volume, readers will find coverage of classic Ifa systems; Buddhist-influenced shamanic practices in the former Soviet Union; the reconciliation of Muslim beliefs and divinatory practices in Thailand; Native American divination used in diagnosis; Maya calendrical divination in Guatemala; mediumistic and chicken oracle divination among the Sukuma of Tanzania; Ndembu divination, focusing on the process of collective healing; and divination among the Samburu (Maasai) of Kenya, featuring dialogues from actual healing sessions. Together, these contributions argue for new perspectives on the study of divination that emphasize not only the epistemological roots of these systems but also their multifaceted therapeutic functions. Divination and Healing is a rich source of both data and insight for scholars of ritual, religion, medical anthropology, and the psychology of altered states of consciousness.

The Meinertzhagen Mystery

Author : Brian Garfield
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597974471
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book The Meinertzhagen Mystery written by Brian Garfield and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall, handsome, charming Col. Richard Meinertzhagen (1878-1967) was an acclaimed British war hero, a secret agent, and a dean of international ornithology. His exploits inspired three biographies, movies have been based on his life, and a square in Jerusalem is dedicated to his memory. Meinertzhagen was trusted by Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gurion, T. E. Lawrence, Elspeth Huxley, and a great many others. He bamboozled them all. Meinertzhagen was a fraud. Many of the adventures recorded in his celebrated diaries were imaginary, including a meeting with Hitler while he had a loaded pistol in his pocket, an attempt to rescue the Russian royal family in 1918, and a shoot-out with Arabs in Haifa when he was seventy years old. True, he was a key player in Middle Eastern events after World War I, and during the 1930s he represented Zionism's interests in negotiations with Germany. But he also set up Nazi front organizations in England, committed a half-century of major and costly scientific fraud, and -- oddly -- may have been innocent of many killings to which he confessed (e.g., the murder of his own polo groom -- a crime of which he cheerfully boasted, although the evidence suggests it never occurred at all). Further, he may have been guilty of at least one homicide of which he professed innocence. A compelling read about a flamboyant rogue, The Meinertzhagen Mystery shows how recorded history reflects not what happened, but what we believe happened.

The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior

Author : Tepilit Ole Saitoti
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520063259
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior written by Tepilit Ole Saitoti and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's traditional childhood, adolescence, and coming into manhood in Maasailand and of his education in Europe and America.

Ethnology of A-Kamba and Other East African Tribes

Author : Charles William Hobley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ethnology of A-Kamba and Other East African Tribes written by Charles William Hobley and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ivory

Author : Mike Resnick
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504077261
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Ivory written by Mike Resnick and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author “has cultivated in these pages an epic history that spans millennia and the breadth of the galaxy” (Tampa Bay Newspapers). Duncan Rojas, an employee in the research department of Wilford Braxton’s Records of Big Game, rarely gets such a request. Bukoba Mandaka, the last descendant of the Maasai, wants his help finding a relic that has been lost for three thousand years: the tusks of the famous Kilimanjaro Elephant. In the year 6303 of the Galactic Era, all animals have become extinct. It’s an almost impossible job, but what Bukoba is willing to pay—and Duncan’s own curiosity—prove irresistible. As Duncan puts all the technology at his disposal to the task, he begins to follow the remarkable odyssey of the ivory through cultures, time, and the universe—from being used as a pawn in a power play by unethical scientists to propping up a brutal warlord, from being worshipped as a symbol of immortality by an alien race to being turned into a matter of national pride by an opportunistic politician. But to Duncan, the even bigger mystery—and one that he must solve—is why Bukoba is willing to put his own future on the line for something so irretrievably lost to the past . . . “Resnick’s fluent writing and respect for African cultures and wildlife make for some smoothly ironic glimpses of people who imagined they ‘owned’ the ivory.” —Publishers Weekly “Marvelously satisfying science fiction . . . don’t miss.” —Analog “Resnick is an excellent storyteller . . . Ivory is a winner.” —The Cincinnati Post

The Contested Lands of Laikipia

Author : Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435204
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Contested Lands of Laikipia written by Marie Ladekjær Gravesen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the violence and conflict that lead up to the land invasions prior to Kenya's 2017 general election. The Contested Lands of Laikipia tells how, and why, land claims and ethnic categories became increasingly politicized here over the past century.

The Once Powerful Talai Clan

Author : David Ngasura Tuei
Publisher : Exceller Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Once Powerful Talai Clan written by David Ngasura Tuei and published by Exceller Books. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short history from a long and complex account of the Kipsigis community among the Kalenjins and the Maasai of Kenya. The Talai clan in discussion staged an unparalleled resistance to the British Colonial Powers at the establishment of the Kenya Colony. The book is about the history of the Kipsigis Talai from mid 18th Century to-date, their culture, traditions, governance systems, resistance to the British Colonial government in Kenya , Historical Injustices, among other stories. Their Compensation Petition to the British Government is now (Year 2021) with U.N Agency- The Human Rights Rapporteurs' Sections. They have remained unheard of fighters in the published history of Kenya. Why? The author tells how and why.

Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa

Author : John Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136551522
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa written by John Middleton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing ten essays by anthropologists on the beliefs and practices associated with witches and sorcerers in Eastern Africa, the chapters in this book are all based on field research and new information which is studied within its wider social context. First published in 1963.

Female Genital Mutilation

Author : Rosemarie Skaine
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Female Genital Mutilation written by Rosemarie Skaine and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book discusses the definition and types of FGM and explores the common justifications for the practice, along with the incidence in Africa, global laws, legal issues, rights and religion. Ethical considerations are examined, as are progress and the role of culture. The book concludes with thoughts on the movement from tradition to cultural evolution."--Provided by publisher.

Colonial Kenya Observed

Author : S. H. Fazan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857737848
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Kenya Observed written by S. H. Fazan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans. In the initial stages of the scramble for Africa in the 18th century, control of the area was an aspiration for every colonial nation in Europe - but it was not until 1895 that it was finally dominated by a sole power and proclaimed The Protectorate of British East Africa. In the early 20th century, the coast was brimming with vitality as immigrants, colonisers and missionaries from Arabia, India and Europe poured in to take advantage of growing commercial opportunities - including the prospect of enslaving millions of native Africans. The development of Kenya is an exceptional tale within the history of British rule - in perhaps no other colony did nationalistic feeling evolve in conditions of such extensive social and political change. In 1911, S.H. Fazan sailed to what later became the Republic of Kenya to work for the colonial government. Immersing himself in knowledge of traditional language and law, he recorded the vast changes to local culture that he encountered after decades of working with both the British administration and the Kenyan people. This work charts the sweeping tide of social change that occurred through his career with the clarity and insight that comes with a total intimacy of a country. His memoirs examine the fascinating complexity of interaction between the colonial and native courts, commercial land reform and the revolutionised dynamic of labour relations. By further unearthing the political tensions that climaxed with the Mau Mau Revolt of 1952-1960, this invaluable work on the European colonial period paints a comprehensive and revealing firsthand account for anyone with an interest in British and African history. Fazan's story provides a quite unparalleled view of colonial Africa and the conduct of Empire across half a century.

Maasai and Iloikop--ritual Experts and Their Followers

Author : John Lawrence Berntsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maasai and Iloikop--ritual Experts and Their Followers written by John Lawrence Berntsen and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Decolonising State and Society in Uganda

Author : Katherine Bruce-Lockhart
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847012973
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Decolonising State and Society in Uganda written by Katherine Bruce-Lockhart and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonization of knowledge has become a major issue in African Studies in recent years, brought to the fore by social movements such as #RhodesMustFall and #BlackLivesMatter. This timely book explores the politics and disputed character of knowledge production in colonial and postcolonial Uganda, where efforts to generate forms of knowledge and solidarity that transcend colonial epistemologies draw on long histories of resistance and refusal. Bringing together scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, the contributors in this volume analyse how knowledge has been created, mobilized, and contested across a wide range of Ugandan contexts. In so doing, they reveal how Ugandans have built, disputed, and reimagined institutions of authority and knowledge production in ways that disrupt the colonial frames that continue to shape scholarly analyses and state structures. From the politics of language and gender in Bakiga naming practices to ways of knowing among the Acholi, the hampering of critical scholarship by militarism and authoritarianism, and debates over the names of streets, lakes, mountains, and other public spaces, this book shows how scholars and a wide range of Ugandan activists are reimagining the politics of knowledge in Ugandan public life.p by militarism and authoritarianism, and debates over the names of streets, lakes, mountains, and other public spaces, this book shows how scholars and a wide range of Ugandan activists are reimagining the politics of knowledge in Ugandan public life.p by militarism and authoritarianism, and debates over the names of streets, lakes, mountains, and other public spaces, this book shows how scholars and a wide range of Ugandan activists are reimagining the politics of knowledge in Ugandan public life.p by militarism and authoritarianism, and debates over the names of streets, lakes, mountains, and other public spaces, this book shows how scholars and a wide range of Ugandan activists are reimagining the politics of knowledge in Ugandan public life.

Habitat, Economy and Society

Author : C. Daryll Forde
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136534725
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Habitat, Economy and Society written by C. Daryll Forde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the ethnography and human geography of non-European peoples, this book deals with the economic and social life of a number of groups at diverse levels of cultural achievement and in different regions of the world. International in its scope the book covers: Malaysia, Africa, North America, Canada, Siberia, the Amazon, Eastern Solomon Islands, India, Central Asia and the Middle East. Originally published in 1934. This re-issues the seventh edition of 1949.

The Southern Nilo-Hamites

Author : G. W. B. Huntingford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315312999
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Southern Nilo-Hamites written by G. W. B. Huntingford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected ethnographic information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well as anthropological research which, in 1945, had only just begun. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.

Method and Theory for Activity Area Research

Author : Susan Kent
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231060806
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Method and Theory for Activity Area Research written by Susan Kent and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Value of Divination to Spirituality in Life and Social Globalization Liberalism

Author : N. K. S. R. Nantu Roy and Salween Ro
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Value of Divination to Spirituality in Life and Social Globalization Liberalism written by N. K. S. R. Nantu Roy and Salween Ro and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Globalization held on from the beginning of Human Evolution and thereafter when Society formed which turned to civilization in the route of Settlement lifestyle under leaders where they were kings and remained as tribal leaders . Societal Collapse was held on and racism formed to different groups of people. Slavery system is implemented by the winner in battle or in war. White Racism held on with people in India during the prehistoric period which was called Sarna Varnaism/ Brilliant colour people racism. Sarna Varnaism called the caste system where Sudra remained black Colour / Shyam Verna. At Colonial Ruled White racism held on at the American Continent where Black innocent people were caught and shelling by explorers and slavery system executed where Black people had not any human right. Some people abolished and demolished the past history and executed a non-formal religious system and racism executed to societal collapse the traditionalism totally and executing self philosophy. Conflict continued and war held around the world. Social Liberalism requires making world peace and harmony as we are civilized and most intelligent terrestrial mammalian omnivorous animals. We require creating a social environment for our next generation as a realistic naturalistic and scientific route of society. Divination gives us peace of mind as we worship and meditate on our ancestors as we believe. Different groups of people’s different systems remained. But criticism discrimination and partiality are divided to rule by selfish people who create conflict and misguide society. Hence come together in the Social liberalism route.