| Description |
1 online resource (x, 230 pages .) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover; Email from Ngeti; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Emails from the Field: An Introduction; 2 English Makes You See Far; 3 God Helps Those That Help Themselves; 4 Good Ants, Bad Milk, and Ugly Deeds; 5 The Power of Prayer; 6 Works and Days; 7 A Confrontation; 8 Reflections; Appendix of Names; Notes; Bibliography. |
| Summary |
Email from Ngeti is a captivating story of sorcery, redemption, and transnational friendship in the globalized twenty-first century. When the anthropologist James Smith returns to Kenya to begin fieldwork for a new research project, he meets Ngeti Mwadime, a young man from the Taita Hills who is as interested in the United States as Smith is in Taita. Ngeti possesses a savvy sense of humor and an unusual command of the English language, which he teaches himself by watching American movies and memorizing the Oxford English Dictionary. Smith and Mwadime soon develop a friendship th. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Taita (African people) -- Social life and customs.
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Taita (African people) |
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Manners and customs. |
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Taita (African people) -- Religious life.
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Religious life. |
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Witchcraft -- Kenya -- Taita Hills.
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Witchcraft. |
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Kenya -- Taita Hills. |
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Taita Hills (Kenya) -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mwadime, Ngeti, 1968- author.
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| Added Title |
Ethnography of sorcery, redemption, and friendship in global Africa |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, James H., 1970- Email from Ngeti. 9780520281103 0520281101 (DLC) 2014020612 |
| ISBN |
052095940X (electronic book) |
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9780520959408 (electronic book) |
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9780520281103 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520281101 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520281127 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520281128 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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