LEADER 05091nam 2201081 450 001 9910826573603321 005 20240215145726.0 010 $a0-520-28112-8 010 $a0-520-95940-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520959408 035 $a(CKB)2550000001333546 035 $a(EBL)1711016 035 $a(OCoLC)884645806 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001288738 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12443555 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001288738 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11295454 035 $a(PQKB)10209960 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1711016 035 $a(DE-B1597)519179 035 $a(OCoLC)1100535756 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520959408 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1711016 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10898573 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL630035 035 $a(OCoLC)891163185 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001333546 100 $a20140809h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEmail from Ngeti $ean ethnography of sorcery, redemption, and friendship in global Africa /$fJames H. Smith and Ngeti Mwadime 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-28110-1 311 0 $a1-306-98784-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Emails from the Field: An Introduction --$t2. English Makes You See Far --$t3. God Helps Those That Help Themselves --$t4. Good Ants, Bad Milk, and Ugly Deeds --$t5. The Power of Prayer --$t6. Works and Days --$t7. A Confrontation --$t8. Reflections --$tAppendix of Names --$tNotes --$tBibliography 330 $aEmail 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 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. 606 $aTaita (African people)$xSocial life and customs 606 $aTaita (African people)$xReligious life 606 $aWitchcraft$zKenya$zTaita Hills 606 $aEthnography 607 $aTaita Hills (Kenya)$xSocial life and customs 610 $a21st century international relations. 610 $aafrica. 610 $aafrican studies. 610 $aanthropology. 610 $aconnectivity. 610 $acultural anthropology. 610 $acultural studies. 610 $adiscussion books. 610 $aengaging. 610 $aethnographic research. 610 $afriendship. 610 $aglobal africa. 610 $aglobalization. 610 $ainternet. 610 $ajournal entries. 610 $akenya. 610 $alively. 610 $alocal diners. 610 $amultiplicity of african life. 610 $anew research project. 610 $apentecostal preachers. 610 $aprophets. 610 $arealistic. 610 $arecorded conversations. 610 $aredemption. 610 $areligion. 610 $ashared emails. 610 $asorcery. 610 $atransnational. 610 $awitch finders. 610 $ayoung generation. 615 0$aTaita (African people)$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aTaita (African people)$xReligious life. 615 0$aWitchcraft 615 0$aEthnography. 676 $a305.896/395 700 $aSmith$b James H.$f1970-$01639273 702 $aMwadime$b Ngeti 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826573603321 996 $aEmail from Ngeti$93982137 997 $aUNINA