Blunt Robert W. For Money and Elders: Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya 9780226655758

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Автор: Blunt Robert W.
Название: For Money and Elders: Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya
ISBN: 9780226655758
Издательство: Wiley
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ISBN-10: 022665575X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 216
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 22.10.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 138 x 216 x 14
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Ritual, sovereignty, and the sacred in kenya
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Many observers of Kenyas 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 countrys 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 W. Blunt addresses these questions by turning to the political, economic, and religious signs in circulation in Kenya today. He examines how Kenyans attempts 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 Kenyas past and present and a penetrating reflection on meanings of violence in African politics.

For Money and Elders: Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya, Blunt Robert W.