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The Nature of Entrustment

- Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa

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Drawing on research among Luo people in western Kenya and abroad, this book examines how Luo assess obligations to intimates and strangers, including the dead and the not-yet-born. It focuses on nonmonetary forms of exchange and entrustment, moving beyond anthropology's traditional understanding of gifts, loans, and reciprocity.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780300116014
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 312
  • Udgivet:
  • 30. juli 2007
  • Størrelse:
  • 237x164x23 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 578 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
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Drawing on research among Luo people in western Kenya and abroad, this book examines how Luo assess obligations to intimates and strangers, including the dead and the not-yet-born. It focuses on nonmonetary forms of exchange and entrustment, moving beyond anthropology's traditional understanding of gifts, loans, and reciprocity.

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