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UNINA9910458504603321 |
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Autore |
Smith James H. <1970-> |
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Titolo |
Email from Ngeti : an ethnography of sorcery, redemption, and friendship in global Africa / / James H. Smith and Ngeti Mwadime |
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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0-520-28112-8 |
0-520-95940-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Taita (African people) - Social life and customs |
Taita (African people) - Religious life |
Witchcraft - Kenya - Taita Hills |
Electronic books. |
Taita Hills (Kenya) Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Front matter -- 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 |
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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 that comes to span years and continents, impacting both men in profound and unexpected ways. For Smith, Ngeti can be understood as an exemplar |
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of a young generation of Africans navigating the multiplicity of contemporary African life-a process that is augmented by globalized culture and the Internet. Keenly aware of the world outside Taita and Kenya, Ngeti dreams big, with endless plans for striking it rich. As he struggles to free himself from what he imagines to be the hold of the past, he embarks on an odyssey that takes him to local diviners, witch-finders, Pentecostal preachers, and prophets. This is the fascinating ethnography of Mwadime and Smith, largely told through their shared emails, journals, and recorded conversations in the field. Throughout, the reader is struck by the immediacy and poignancy of coauthor Ngeti's narrative, which marks a groundbreaking shift in the nature of anthropological fieldwork and writing. |
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UNINA9910787962703321 |
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Vulnerability in technological cultures : new directions in research and governance / / edited by Anique Hommels, Jessica Mesman, Wiebe E. Bijker |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] |
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0-262-52580-1 |
0-262-32314-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HommelsAnique |
MesmanJessica <1962-> |
BijkerWiebe E |
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Disciplina |
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Technology - Social aspects |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-372) and index. |
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Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable to human error and technical malfunctioning that have far-reaching consequences: one flipped switch can cause a cascading power failure |
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across a networked electric grid. Yet, once addressed, vulnerability accompanied by coping mechanisms may yield a more flexible and resilient society. This book investigates vulnerability, in both its negative and positive aspects, in technological cultures. The contributors argue that viewing risk in terms of vulnerability offers a novel approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology. Such an approach broadens conventional risk analysis by connecting to issues of justice, solidarity, and livelihood, and enabling comparisons between the global north and south. The book explores case studies that range from agricultural practices in India to neonatal intensive care medicine in Western hospitals; these cases, spanning the issues addressed in the book, illustrate what vulnerability is and does. The book offers conceptual frameworks for empirical description and analysis of vulnerability that elucidate its ambiguity, context dependence, and constructed nature. Finally, the book addresses the implications of these analyses for the governance of vulnerability, proposing a more reflexive way of dealing with vulnerability in technological cultures. Contributors Marjolein van Asselt, Martin Boeckhout, Wiebe Bijker, Tessa Fox, Stephen Healy, Anique Hommels, Sheila Jasanoff, Jozef Keulartz, Jessica Mesman, Ger Palmboom, C. Shambu Prasad, Julia Quartz, Johan M. Sanne, Maartje Schermer, Teesta Setelvad, Esha Shah, Andy Stirling, Imrat Verhoeven, Esther Versluis, Shiv Visvanathan, Gerard de Vries, Ger Wackers, Dick Willems. |
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