Once the major success story of a troubled continent, by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities that sustain them. The analysis ranges from telescopic to microscopic fields, combining many disciplines and perspectives to give a rich and varied picture of the culture of politics in twentieth-century Kenya.
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"This book is an exciting attempt to bring methods and concepts from contemporary anthropology to bear on African politics." Foreign Affairs
"Simons brackets her aims and achievements honestly....The silences in her text voice significant themes for the future consideration." Joan Vincent, American Anthropologist
"An exceptionally rare and powerful combination of analytical sophistication joined to a scrupulous, historically-grounded account of politics, social practice, and material life." James C. Scott, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, Yale University
"Simons brackets her aims and achievements honestly....The silences in her text voice significant themes for the future consideration." Joan Vincent, American Anthropologist
"An exceptionally rare and powerful combination of analytical sophistication joined to a scrupulous, historically-grounded account of politics, social practice, and material life." James C. Scott, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, Yale University
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Once the major success story of a troubled continent,by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them. The analysis ranges from telescopic to microscopic fields, and combining many disciplines and perspectives to give a rich and varied picture of the culture of politics in twentieth-century Kenya.'...a highly perceptive and interesting analysis, deconstruction is not too strong a term, of Kenya's politics....[A] well researched, documented and enlightening book' African Affairs
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Exuberant showmanship is one enduring face of Kenyan political life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
castor nut, multiparty advocates, occasions exchange labor, food surplus production, mature coffee trees, nyayo philosophy, relations between juniors, matatu taxis, beer ban, cotton zone, exotic cattle, wealth score, colonial chiefs, coffee income, proverb number, coffee zone, rural differentiation, national political culture, household mobility, wealth differences, multiparty political system, patronage resources, land tenure reform, household membership, multiparty politics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Bank, Embu District, Rift Valley, Central Province, Eastern Europe, The Mikado, Van de Walle, Africa Watch, Jomo Kenyatta, Costa Rica, Democratic Party, Embu Local Native Council, Lake Victoria, Mau Mau, Murray Edelman, Operation Anvil, Runyenje's Division, Angelique Haugerud, Chief M'Tetu, East Africa, Kagaari Location, West Africa New!
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Exuberant showmanship is one enduring face of Kenyan political life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
castor nut, multiparty advocates, occasions exchange labor, food surplus production, mature coffee trees, nyayo philosophy, relations between juniors, matatu taxis, beer ban, cotton zone, exotic cattle, wealth score, colonial chiefs, coffee income, proverb number, coffee zone, rural differentiation, national political culture, household mobility, wealth differences, multiparty political system, patronage resources, land tenure reform, household membership, multiparty politics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Bank, Embu District, Rift Valley, Central Province, Eastern Europe, The Mikado, Van de Walle, Africa Watch, Jomo Kenyatta, Costa Rica, Democratic Party, Embu Local Native Council, Lake Victoria, Mau Mau, Murray Edelman, Operation Anvil, Runyenje's Division, Angelique Haugerud, Chief M'Tetu, East Africa, Kagaari Location, West Africa New!
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- Food and Farm by Christina Gladwin in Front Matter, page 179, and Back Matter
- Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present (Advanced Seminar) by Richard G. Fox in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Golden Ages, Dark Ages: Imagining the Past in Anthropology and History by Jay O'Brien in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rural Development: Theories of Peasant Economy and Agrarian Change by John Harriss in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe on page 199, and Back Matter
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- Church, State and Society in Kenya: From Mediation to Opposition by Galia Sabar in Front Matter, page 17, and Back Matter
- Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back (California Series in Public Anthropology) by Catherine Besteman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Peaceful Resistance: Advancing Human Rights And Democratic Freedoms by Robert M. Press on page 165, and Back Matter
- Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food by Michael G. Schatzberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ethnicity & Democracy In Africa by Bruce Berman on page 45, and page 76
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