Burying SM
The politics of knowledge and the sociology of power in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24200724 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David William Cohen |
| Year | 1992 |
| Pages | 159 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Burying SM (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Heinemann (PUBLISHER) |
| Open Library | OL1548763M |
| ISBN | 9780435080617 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 139 |
Africa · Burial laws · Burial laws (Luo law) · Customary law · Death and burial · Joash Ochieng' Ougo · Kenya · Nairobi · Ochieng' Ougo, Joash · Silvanus Melea Otieno (d. 1985) · Trials, litigation · Trials, litigation, etc · Wambui Waiyaki Otieno (1936-)
Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi
Specificities
Age, Power and Sex in Modern Kenya
L'anthropologie politique en France après 1980
We Are All Going to Die
The Risks of Knowledge
A New Framework for the Analysis of Social Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya’s Four Ages of Ethnicity
The rise of Africa’s middle class
The Ballad of the Sad Café
The Politics Of Women's Rights and Cultural Diversity In Uganda
Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics
The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery
Redefining kin and family social relations
‘Back Home in the States’
Hybridity and Heresy
Capitalism and Autochthony
Dismembering and Remembering the Body
Openness
From Words to Worlds
Life
Environmentalism and Postcolonialism
Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa
Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900–1955
African affirmations
The Forgotten Compass of Death
The nature of decline
Urbanisation by subtraction
Unravelling Church Land
Capturing the Land
‘Blood Follows Blood’
Resisting Uniformity at Mwana Kupona Girls' School
This Is Our Home
Our Enemies are God's Enemies
Soil, Work, Civilisation, and Citizenship in Kenya
Family Foundations for Solidarity and Social Mobility
Specificities
"Searching for "Voices
Diffusion of Law
Archivos coloniales y el arte de gobernar
Land, graves and belonging
Portrait of a Chief between Past and Present
Between gluckman and foucault
Hiv/Aids
Hungry children don't ask fathers for food’
Reading the referents’
Between emptiness and superfluity
Religion, the African Concept of the Individual, and Human Rights Discourse
Expanding ‘civil society’
Engendering an Alternative Approach to Otherness in African Women's Autobiography
The Burden of Representation in the Life Stories of Wambui Waiyaki Otieno and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Autochthony and Citizenship
Cyber History
Funeral Planning
Women, Home and Personal Narrative in Kenya
A debt never dies
The Social Reconstruction of "Home" among African Immigrants in Canada
Citizenship and Ethnicity
Prosecuting a Prophet
Funerals and Belonging
Introduction
The Idiom of Age in a Popular Kenyan Newspaper Serial
Luo entrustment
Introduction
Going Home? Belonging and Burial in the Era of Aids
Hegemonic Enterprises and Instrumentalities of Survival
The Kwanhama partitioned by the border and the Angolan perspective of cross-border identity
Snake-driven development
The Mortuary Sphere, Privilege and the Politics of Belonging in Contemporary Cameroon
Kenya's Colonial Judges
Writing alternative womanhood in Kenya in Margaret Ogola'sThe River and the Source
The vitality and efficacy of human substances
Neglect as effacement
Towards a critical interdisciplinarity? African history and the reconstruction of universal narratives
The Political Undead
The power of Aids
Who are the Luo? Oral tradition and disciplinary practices in anthropology and history
A Personal Journey into Custom, Identity, Power, and Politics
Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Kenya
"The African family is large, very large" mobility and the flexibility of kinship - examples from Cameroon
Capitalism and Autochthony
Introduction
Colonial archives and the arts of governance
African women and their colonisation of Nairobi
The traffic in heads
Kachinjaare Coming
A Citizenship of Distinction in the Open Radio Debates of Kampala
The social meanings of death from HIV/Aids
Burying 'Zik of Africa
Exploring the Middle Classes in Nairobi
Death 'On the Move
Blomsterhager og shambaer
The point of death
The burial of Canon J.A. Calata and the revival of mass‐based opposition in Cradock, South Africa, 1983
Governing the Living and the Dead
Mungiki, Vernacular Organization and Political Society in Kenya
Burials and Belonging in Nigeria
The problem of widows
Beyond the everyday
They just move in with relatives
| Unique citing works | 101 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,21 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2024 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 132 |