The Land Is Dying

The Land Is DyingBased 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

It concludes with an extensive critical essay on the role of ritual

Anzaldua Book Prize presented by the National Women's Studies Association

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is an exemplary collection of short fiction that showcases the author’s empathetic and hopeful outlook on poverty and American life

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as the real experience of ordinary people

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as moments