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TITLE: Burying "SM" The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power
AUTHOR: D.W. Cohen  E.S.Atieno Odhiambo 
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PUBLISHER: James Currey Ltd
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SERIES: Social History of Africa
FORMAT: Paperback (pp: 176) 227 x 142mm
ISBN-10: 0852556063
ISBN-13: 9780852556061
PUB DATE: 24 Sep 1992
AVAILABILITY: Available
PRICE: �17.95

 

REVIEW:
'The authors of this intriguing account offer a chorus of conflicting voices and invite readers to draw their own conclusions.' - Foreign Affairs '... the controversy over this Kenyan's burial fascinates us because it speaks to many of the thorniest issues confronting Africans today...' - Journal of Modern African Studies


CONTENTS:
One body, two funerals
- orations of the dead
- silences of the living
- living bodies and their knowledge
- the productions of culture
- the constitution of an African state
- Owino Misiani's lamentation, 1987.


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Social & cultural history
African history: postwar, from c 1945 -
Sociology, social studies
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Additional Information:
Illustrations: 12 photographs, map, bibliographies, index Dewey: 346.7620445 LC Subject: Customary law - Kenya