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The Luo culture : a reconstruction of the material culture patterns of a traditional African Society
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ISBN: 3515029257 Year: 1980 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Steiner,

Traditional ideology and ethics among the southern Luo
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ISBN: 9171061002 Year: 1976 Publisher: Uppsala : Scandinavian Institute of African Studies,


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Grasp the shield firmly, the journey is hard
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ISBN: 9987080995 9786613004970 9987081185 9987081304 9987102425 1283004976 9789987080991 9789987081301 Year: 2010 Publisher: Dar es Salaam Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers

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This book is a compilation of oral histories about the movement of Luo and some Bantu-speaking peoples. It includes histories of many clans or ethnic groups, and how drought, warfare, disease, and competition over pastoral resources in western Kenya forced them to look for a land that they could call their own. Highly entertaining, the stories cross over from pre-colonial to post-colonial eras, with tales of fooling the colonial officers, winning battles and producing miracles. Although warriors and chiefs play a critical part in the stories so too do unlikely actors such as women, prophets, a


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The land is dying : contingency, creativity and conflict in western Kenya
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ISBN: 9780857457936 0857457934 9780857458261 1845454812 0857458264 9786612662348 1282662341 1845458028 Year: 2013 Publisher: New-York : Berghahn Books,

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This series in medical anthropology publishes monographs and edited volumes on indigenous (so-called traditional) medical knowledge and practice, alternative and complementary medicine, and ethnobiological studies that relate to health and illness. The emphasis of the series is on the way indigenous epistemologies inform healing, against a background of comparison with other practices, and in recognition of the fluidity between them. Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life. Central to such debates is a discussion of touch in the broad sense of concrete, material contact between persons. In mundane practices and in ritual acts, touch is considered to be key to the creation of bodily life as well as social continuity. Underlying the significance of material contact is its connection with growth-of persons and groups, animals, plants and the land - and the forward movement of life more generally. Under the pressure of illness and death, economic hardship and land scarcity, as well as bitter struggles about the relevance and application of Christianity and ̀Luo tradition' in daily life, people find it difficult to agree about the role of touch in engendering growth, or indeed about the aims of growth itself. --Book Jacket.

Women of fire and spirit : history, faith, and gender in Roho religion in western Kenya
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ISBN: 0195097904 0195097912 1280451440 1602560595 0195356969 1423758846 0199854769 9780195097900 9780195097917 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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This is the first extensive study of the African Christian Roho religion, or Holy Spirit movement, in Western Kenya. Hoehler-Fatton uses extensive oral histories and life narratives to provide a counterweight to existing historical literature, and also brings to the fore the role of women in the evolution and expansion of the Church.

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Independent churches --- Christian sects --- Women in Christianity --- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Eglises indépendantes --- Sectes chrétiennes --- Femmes dans le christianisme --- Luo (Peuple du Kenya et de Tanzanie) --- Case studies. --- Case studies --- Religion. --- Cas, Etudes de --- Etudes de cas --- Religion --- Ruwe Holy Ghost Church of East Africa --- Musanda Holy Ghost Church of East Africa. --- Nyanza Province (Kenya) --- Nyanza (Kenya) --- Church history. --- Histoire religieuse --- Musanda Holy Ghost Church of East Africa --- church history --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Eglises indépendantes --- Sectes chrétiennes --- Christianity --- Dho Luo (African people) --- Jo Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Kavirondo (Nilotic people) --- Luo (African people) --- Luo (Nilotic tribe) --- Ethnology --- Lwoo (African people) --- Churches, Nondenominational --- Churches, Undenominational --- Nondenominational churches --- Undenominational churches --- Community churches --- Christian denominations --- Denominations, Christian --- Sects, Christian --- Church history --- Sects --- Christian heresies --- Ruwe Holy Ghost Church of East Africa. --- church history. --- Independent churches - Kenya - Nyanza Province - Case studies --- Christian sects - Kenya - Nyanza - Case studies --- Women in Christianity - Kenya - Nyanza Province - Case studies --- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) - Religion --- Nyanza Province (Kenya) - church history

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