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Academic Disciplines
African Landscape
Author_D.W. Cohen
Author_E.S.Atieno Odhiambo
Category=JHM
Cultural Questions
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Ethnography
Kenya
Luo
Luo Culture
Siaya
Product details
- ISBN 9780852550359
- Weight: 234g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 02 Feb 1989
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A book written both for and about the Luo.
The authors use stories to reveal Siaya, the Luo-speaking area of western Kenya, bringing together ideas and debates which Luo express about their past and present with findings, arguments and questions produced by scholars. For the Luo, what constitutes culture, what is correct behaviour, what is history, are questions that are heavily fought over. This is one of those rare books that makes students and other interested readers question their own culturalpreconceptions and re-examine the concerns of academic disciplines.
North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP
