TY - BOOK ID - 84003881 TI - Ghosts of Kanungu : fertility, secrecy & exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa PY - 2009 SN - 1847010091 9781847010094 9789970027323 9970027328 9781846157271 9786612988172 1846157277 1282988174 PB - Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, DB - UniCat KW - Fire investigation KW - Fires KW - Mass burials KW - #SBIB:39A10 KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - Mass graves KW - Burial KW - Buildings KW - Conflagrations KW - Fire losses KW - Accidents KW - Disasters KW - Fire KW - Investigations KW - Casualties KW - Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Fires and fire prevention KW - Investigation KW - Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. KW - Kanungu Cult KW - Kanungu (Uganda) KW - Social conditions KW - Ghosts of Kanungu. KW - Great Lakes. KW - Mass Murder. KW - Mass Suicide. KW - Nyabingi Fertility Cult. KW - Richard Vokes. KW - Rwanda. KW - Secrecy. KW - Southwestern Uganda. KW - Uganda. KW - Violence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84003881 AB - On 17 March 2000 several hundred members of a charismatic Christian sect, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), burnt to death in the group's headquarters in the Southwest Ugandan village of Kanungu. Days later the Ugandan police discovered a series of mass graves containing over 400 bodies on various other properties belonging to the sect. Was this mass suicide or mass murder? The question of whether Kanungu is best understood as mass suicide or multiple murder is more than just an intriguing detective story: it goes to the heart of how the event should be perceived and understood in both religious and social terms. Based on eight years of historical and ethnographic research, 'Ghosts of Kanungu' provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the MRTC and of the events leading up to the inferno. It argues that none of these events can be understood without reference to a broader social history of Southwestern Uganda during the twentieth century, in which anti-colonial movements, Catholic White Fathers missionaries, colonial relocation schemes, the breakdown of the Ugandan state, post-war reconstruction, the onset of HIV/AIDS, and the transformation of the regional Nyabingi fertility cult into a Marian church with worldwide connections, all played their part. The themes of this book were presented by the author when he gave the Evans-Pritchard lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. RICHARD VOKES is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Uganda: Fountain Publishers (PB). ER -