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Ghosts of Kanungu : fertility, secrecy & exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa

Title
Ghosts of Kanungu : fertility, secrecy & exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa / Richard Vokes.
Author
Vokes, Richard.
Publication
Oxford : James Currey, c2009.

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xiii, 240 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
This work is an investigation into the events and historical context of the Kanungu fire in south-west Uganda in which several hundred members of MRTC (Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God), a charismatic Christian sect, were burned to death in March 2000.
Series Statement
African anthropology series
Subject
  • Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
  • Fires > Casualties > Kanungu
  • Mass burials > Kanungu
  • Fire investigation > Kanungu
  • Kanungu (Uganda) > Social conditions > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
Sc E 10-1122
ISBN
  • 9781847010094 (hbk. : James Currey)
  • 1847010091 (hbk. : James Currey)
  • 9789970027323 (hbk. : Fountain)
  • 9970027328 (hbk. : Fountain)
OCLC
506239943
Author
Vokes, Richard.
Title
Ghosts of Kanungu : fertility, secrecy & exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa / Richard Vokes.
Imprint
Oxford : James Currey, c2009.
Series
African anthropology series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 10-1122
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