Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya 9780812209372, 9780812239645, 0812239644, 2006042182

The Samburu of northern Kenya struggle to maintain their pastoral way of life as drought and the side effects of globali

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Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya
9780812209372, 9780812239645, 0812239644, 2006042182

The miraculous blends with the mundane in this book as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existe

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With a fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Janis H. Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and dep

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Neighboring communities who once lived together in peace have committed some of the most disturbing genocidal violence i

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This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in th

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This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in th

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In Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture Renée Hulan disputes the notion that the north is a source of d

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Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania

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This book, originally published in 1983, demonstrates the importance of seaports in the growth of less-developed countri

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Scandinavia has often been considered as a peripheral part of the Christian world, with its archbishopric in Nidaros an

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Kenya s five million Muslims form an increasingly important minority group in a largely Christian country though they ar

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