{"product_id":"miracles-and-extraordinary-experience-in-northern-kenya-paperback-softback-9780812220926","title":"Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812220926","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMiracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBilinda Straight (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812220926\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 November 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 15 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An engaging, provocative intervention in cultural theory.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Academy of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Straight's . . . work reminds the reader of the important ways that theory and ethnography can mutually inform and illuminate, and the book is an important contribution to the existing literature for both area specialist and the theoretically inclined.\" (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Samburu of northern Kenya struggle to maintain their pastoral way of life as drought and the side effects of globalization threaten both their livestock and their livelihood. Mirroring this divide between survival and ruin are the lines between the self and the other, the living and the dead, \"this side\" and \u003ci\u003einia bata\u003c\/i\u003e, \"that side.\" Cultural anthropologist Bilinda Straight, who has lived with the Samburu for extended periods since the 1990s, bears witness to Samburu life and death in \u003ci\u003eMiracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e Written mostly in the field, \u003ci\u003eMiracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book-length ethnography completely devoted to Samburu divinity and belief. Here, child prophets recount their travels to heaven and back. Others report transformations between persons and inanimate objects. Spirit turns into action and back again. The miraculous is interwoven with the mundane as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes these fantastic movements inside the cultural logic that makes them possible; thus she calls into question how we experience, how we feel, and how anthropologists and their readers can best engage with the improbable.\u003cbr\u003e In her detailed and precise accounts, Straight writes beyond traditional ethnography, exploring the limits of science and her own limits as a human being, to convey the significance of her time with the Samburu as they recount their fantastic yet authentic experiences in the physical and metaphysical spaces of their culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Author's Note\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: Experience\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: Signs\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: Nkai\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: Latukuny\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: N'goki\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six: Death\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Seven: Resurrection\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Eight: Loip\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Nine: Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676633493784,"sku":"9780812220926","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/miracles-and-extraordinary-experience-in-northern-kenya-paperback-softback-9780812220926","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}