Ghosts of Kanungu : Fertility, Secrecy and Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa

By:

Vokes, Richard

Material type:

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Uganda : Fountain Publishers, 2009Edition: Fountain Publishers PaperbackDescription: 240p., illustrated; 16cmx24cmISBN:

9789970027323

DDC classification:

Fountain Publishers Paperback HS2009/02

Summary: Ghosts of Kanungu : Fertlility, Secrecy and Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa is a historical ethnography of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), and of the Kanungu fire itself. A such it begins with an explanation of the social contect from which this particular African-Initiated Church (AIC) emerge in the mid-1980s, and with an attempt to define the cultural archive which informed that process of genesis.

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Ghosts of Kanungu : Fertlility, Secrecy and Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa is a historical ethnography of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), and of the Kanungu fire itself. A such it begins with an explanation of the social contect from which this particular African-Initiated Church (AIC) emerge in the mid-1980s, and with an attempt to define the cultural archive which informed that process of genesis.

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