{"product_id":"siaya-david-william-cohen-9780821409022","title":"Siaya: The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe authors of this highly original book set out to remove the persistent boundary between the authors and readers of ethnography on one hand and the subjects of ethnography on the other - those who observe and those who are observed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authors use stories to reveal Siaya, the Luo-speaking area of Western Kenya down near the Lake but still surprisingly vulnerable to drought. There are the stories of survival by a woman with her carpenter husband in Nairobi, there is the launching of a boat as bride into the Lake and there is the great Boro Christmas disco riot. The book finishes with an Afterword on the burial of the lawyer S. M. Otiono that divided its whole of Kenya.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is both written about and for the Luo. It brings together Luo ideas and debates about their own past and present with findings, arguments and questions produced about this \"other people;\" by outside scholars writing in their own disciplines. Among the Luo, what constitutes culture, what is correct behavior, what is history, are questions that are heavily fought over.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is one of those rare books that makes students and other interested individuals question their own cultural preconceptions and what are the genuine concerns of academic disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David William Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821409026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821409022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"David William Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372319887615,"sku":"9780821409022","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6a361c9-662a-4bf2-aa4a-93dce34593d9.jpg?v=1732725623","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/siaya-david-william-cohen-9780821409022","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}