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Dealing with 'remote control': ritual healing and modernity in Western Kenya

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Main Author:	Okwaro, Ferdinand (Author)
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	2010
Subjects:	Ritual Heilung Kenia Hochschulschrift
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description:	Literaturverz. S. 382 - 396
Physical Description:	VI, 396 S. Ill., Kt.

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adam_text	TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS III TABLE OF CONTENTS IV CHAPTER 1 RITUAL HEALING AND MODERNITY IN WESTERN KENYA 1 1.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY 1 1.2 RITUAL HEALING AND MODERNITY 18 1.3 RITUAL HEALING AND TRADITIONAL AFRICAN MEDICINE 31 1.4 METHODOLOGY 38 1.5 THE HEALERS 42 1.5.1 MTUMISHI PATRICK.BARASA 43 1.5.2. FRANCIS SHISIA 48 CHAPTER 2 YOU ARE ACCUSED! 56 2.1. INTRODUCTION 56 2.2. MTUMISHI BARASA AND HIS X-RAY DIVINATION METHOD 57 2.2.1. ENTRY INTO THE RITUAL SPACE AND ARENA 57 2.2.2. INITIAL CONSULTATIONS AND DIVINATION WITH MB 60 2.2.3. ENCOUNTERING MB: CONSULTATION AND DIVINATION 61 2.2.4 BEYOND MB S TENTATIVE DIVINATION: THE X-RAY OR COURTROOM 68 2.2.5. CONSTITUTING THE COURT OR X-RAY SESSIONS 70 2.2.6. THE MENTION 76 2.2.7. THE HEARING 77 2.2.8. THE JUDGEMENT 78 2.2.9. THE OUTCOME 81 2.3. MB S DIVINATION AND REDRESS MECHANISM 82 2.4. THE ABANDONED X-RAY SESSION 93 2.5. SUMMARY 97 CHAPTER 3 INSIDE MB COURTROOM: SKEPTICISM, LIMINALITY, DRAMA AND WAR WITH THE DEVIL.... 102 3.1. INTRODUCTION 102 3-2. THE UNRESOLVED MURDER CASE 107 3.3. ABSCONDING WIVES AND CHILDREN 131 3.4. COMMENTARY 166 3.5. MB AND THE SUPERNATURAL 169 IV HTTP://D-NB.INFO/1037231759 CHAPTER 4 RITUAL HEALING AND THE VARIETY OF CLIENTS 171 4.1: DISOBEDIENT SONS, BEWITCHING FATHERS AND MB S INTERVENTION 171 4.2. LAND DISPUTES, WITCHCRAFT ACCUSATIONS AND PREMEDITATED MURDER 179 4.3 FLUID CONNUBIALITY, CHILD CUSTODY AND ENVISIONED BENEFITS 196 4.4. DISPUTED POLYGYNY WITHIN POLYGYNY 206 4.5. REUNITING CHILDREN WITH THEIR PARENTS AND CORNERING CRAFTY BOYFRIENDS 215 4.6. DISHONEST DEBTORS 229 4.7. CONCLUSION... 243 CHAPTER 5 CLEANSING, CHARMS RETRIEVAL AND RITUAL OF PROPHYLAXIS 250 5.1. INTRODUCTION 250 5.2. KUSAFISHA: THE CLEANSING RITUAL , 251 5.3. KUSAFISHA: THE CASE OF KARAMA 252 5.5. KNVUTA : RITUAL RETRIEVAL OF CHARMS ! 262 5.6. ANATOMY OF KUVUTA 264 5.6.1. THE CHURCH SERVICE 266 5.6.2. COMMENTARY 272 5.6.3. COLLECTING THE CHARMS 272 5.6.4. THE IDENTIFICATION OF CHARMS 274 5.6.5. UNPACKING THE CHARMS 275 5.7. CHARMS AND THE ETHNOGRAPHIC CASES 281 5.7.1 THE CASE OF JAEL 281 5.7.2. CASE 2. BEN ORUKO: DJINNS, ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AND A TROUBLED LIFE 282 5.7.3. THE CASE OF JULIUS OBOYA 288 5.8. COMMENTARY 291 5.9. RITUAL PROPHYLAXIS 295 5.10. CONCLUSION 296 CHAPTER 6 RITUAL HEALING, MODERNITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 299 6.1. INTRODUCTION 299 6.2. RITUAL HEALING AND THE QUEST FOR CERTIFICATES AND EMPLOYMENT 300 6.3. PROSECUTING A KENYAN COURT PROCESS IN MB S SUPERIOR COURT 311 6.4. MB AND HIS ADAPTATIONS 322 6.4.1 NEW LANGUAGE, NEW LABELS 322 6.4.2. X-RAY AND COURTROOM 322 6.4.3. SPECIALIZED SPACES: SPECIALIZED PROCEDURES 324 6.4.4. ORDER, AUTHORITY AND HIERARCHY 326 6.4.5. AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES AND ITS EFFECTS ON RITUAL PROCESSES 327 6.4.6. GROUP VERSUS INDIVIDUAL RITUALS AND RITUAL BY REPRESENTATION 328 6.4.7. THE PROMINENCE OF THE BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN WORSHIP PROCEDURES 329 6.4.8. RITUAL AND THE SOCIAL UNIT 330 6.5. CONCLUSION; 332 V CHAPTER 7 RITUAL HEALING AND EFFICACY 334 7.1. INTRODUCTION : 334 7.2. THE INFLUENCE OF CANNON S VOODOO DEATH 340 7.3. EFFICACY AND AFRICAN COSMOLOGY : 343 7.4. CLIENTS AND THEIR VIEWS 352 7.5. CONCLUSION 357 CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSION 360 REFERENCES 382 VI
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