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Laibon : an anthropologist's journey with Samburu diviners in Kenya / Elliot M. Fratkin.

Title
Laibon : an anthropologist's journey with Samburu diviners in Kenya / Elliot M. Fratkin.
Author
Fratkin, Elliot M.
Publication
Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, 2011.

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Description
xiv, 179 p., [8] p. of plates; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Fratkin, Elliot M
  • Anthropologists > Kenya > Biography
  • Samburu (African people) > Social life and customs
  • Ariaal (African people) > Social life and customs
  • Ethnology > Kenya
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. Meeting the laibon Lonyoki -- ch. 2. Living with nomads -- ch. 3. The dark valley -- ch. 4. The long hunger -- ch. 5. Epilogue : the gourd is passed.
ISBN
  • 9780759120679 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0759120676 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780759120686 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0759120684 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780759120693 (electronic)
  • 0759120692 (electronic)
LCCN
^^2011022332
OCLC
729721249
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library