Sverker Finnstrom

Living with Bad Surroundings

War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores ways that people in Acholiland, Uganda struggle to control and comprehend their local moral universe during a civil war that has ravaged the region since 1986, and the role of rumors, cosmology, metaphor, and religion in their interpretation of t

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An ethnographic examination of how northern Ugandans understand and attempt to control their moral universe and material circumstances in the midst of civil war.

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Produktdetails

• The Cultures and Practice of Violence
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341918
• ISBN-10: 0822341913
• Artikelnr.: 23368692

Autorenporträt

Sverker Finnström

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Orientations: War and culture in Uganda 1
1. Acholi worlds and the colonial encounter 29
2. Neocolonial legacies and evolving war 63
3. Rebel manifestos in context 99
4. Displacements 131
5. Wartime rumors and moral truths 167
6. Uprooting the pumpkins 197
Reorientations: Unfinished realities 233
Notes 245
Acronyms 253
References 255
Index 277