Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya
Bilinda Straight
296 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus.
Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3964-5 | $49.95 | £32.50
Paper Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2092-6 | $24.95 | £16.50
A volume in the Contemporary Ethnography series
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.
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