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The ?gembe region of Kenya is a rich agricultural area on the equator, where people live in a unique time-world. Whenever a problem arises, people do not hasten to a conclusion, but ‘wait’ as a means of solution. This does not mean doing nothing. It is simply acknowledging the bene?ts of waiting for a time when the community is better able to resolve the issue.
An important characteristic of this indigenous community is its orientation toward communal intentions and exclusion of individualism. In over 20 years of research and extensive ?eldwork, the author has traced the major social and historical turning points such as the price collapse of coffee beans, which had supported the local economy, as well as the accumulation of social events such as collective sanctions against sexual predators and multiple homicide compensation claims, to observe how internal village con?icts, initially dif?cult to resolve by consensus, are overcome by waiting, before rallying to regain ‘communal intent’ by ‘concealing’ the individual.
This ethnography portrays a contemporary African agrarian people living between their unique time-world, their views of humanity and social structure, the institutions of state governance, and the global cash crop economy.
目次
1 A farming community:Circuit cultivation in transition
2 The field is theirs:K^ur^umithua ndewa,age‐class formation and the persistence of local memory
3 Man who never dies:Clan revival for new generations
4 The Athimba:Fifteen years of clan making in a local context
5 Clanship and ^ichiaro:The individual,the depersonalised and the indeterminate
6 Feathers and guardians:The perpetuation of shared personhood
7 Transcending inner conflicts:Election day for the Athimba clan
Appendix1 Homicide compensation in Kenya
Appendix2 A witchcraft accusation in M^uringene in September 2005