Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya

✍ Scribed by Bilinda Straight

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Author’s Note
Part I. Framing Extraordinary Experience
Chapter 1. Experience
Chapter 2. Signs
Chapter 3. Nkai
Part II. Fragile Borders
Chapter 4. Latukuny
Chapter 5. Noki
Chapter 6. Death
Chapter 7. Resurrection
Chapter 8. Loip
Conclusion. Immediacies
Appendix 1. From the Derridean Gap to Theorizations of Consciousness and Forgetting: Defending Expansive Experience Within the Play of Signs
Appendix 2. The ‘‘I’’ Verb Stem
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index