This book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft and its contentious relationship with the state in colonial Kenya.
Witchcraft and colonial rule in Kenya, 1900-1955
Witchcraft and colonial rule in Kenya, 1900-1955
Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses the emergence of imp…
In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields - from Spanish (1850s - 1898) to US rule (1898- ) - Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple for…
In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields--from Spanish (1850s-1898) to US rule (1898- ) Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple forms of…