Charity and Chance

The Manufacture of Uncertainty and Mistrust through Child Sponsorship in Kenya

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20077549
AutoresElizabeth Cooper (0000-0003-3367-7053, Simon Fraser University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Páginas36-58
Fecha de publicación2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaEthnographies of Uncertainty in Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137350831_3
OpenAlexW2500394979
ISBN9781137350831
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas14

Uncertainty is commonly conceptualized as psychosocial enigma. As a consequence, it is prone to being analysed as a cultural phenomenon, both in the meanings that different people attribute to it and how people respond to it. In this, different cosmologies of fortune, destiny, and chance have been carefully considered by anthropologists, as have the various avenues of people’s inquiries and petitions, including religion and science, for example (da Col 2012; Haram & Yamba 2009; Evans-Pritchard 1937). These contributions have been important for unsettling any potential ethnocentric prejudice that would claim that there is one way in which people understand (or should understand) how and why our lives can surprise us

Destiny (ISS module) · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnocentrism · Phenomenon · Prejudice (legal term) · Sociology · Surprise · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Engineering · Philosophy · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Social Psychology