Active dead or alive: Some Kenyan views about the agency of Luo and Luyia women pre- and post-mortem
Paying attention to burial disputes can help us to understand better matters relating to gender, kinship, community, agency, and power. Since Luo and Luyia believe that life after death is a significant part of a person's life, paying attention to 'the hold death has' upon people is i...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2000
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Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2000, Volume: 30, Issue: 4, Pages: 433-467 |
Further subjects: | B
Manners and customs
B Einflussgröße B Luo B People B Religion B Ethnology B Custom B Kenya B Teaching B Religious practice B Luyia (African people) B Cult of the dead B Tree trunk Ethnology |
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