Siaya: The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape

by David William Cohen and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo

Book Overview

The 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.

The 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821409026
• ISBN13: 9780821409022
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"