Killing Your Neighbors : Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond / Jon Holtzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holtzman, Jon, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Samburu (African people)--Violence against--Kenya.

Samburu (African people).

Samburu (African people)--Kenya--Social conditions.

Ethnic conflict--Kenya.

Ethnic conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Neighboring communities who once lived together in peace have committed some of the most disturbing genocidal violence in recent decades: ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia; the slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda; or Sunni-versus-Shia violence in today's Iraq. As these instances illustrate, lethal violence does not always come at the hands of outsiders or foreigners-it can come just as easily from someone who was once considered a friend. Employing a multisited, multivocal approach to ethnography, Killing Your Neighbors examines how peaceful neighbors become involved in lethal violence. It engages with a set of interlocking case studies in northern Kenya, focusing on sometimes-peaceful, sometimes violent interactions between Samburu herders and neighboring groups, interweaving Samburu narratives of key violent events with the narratives of neighboring groups on the other side of the same encounters. The book is, on one hand, an ethnography of particular people in a particular place, vividly portraying the complex and confusing dynamics of interethnic violence through the lives, words and intimate experiences of individuals variously involved in and affected by these conflicts. At the same time, the book aims to use this particular case study to illustrate how the dynamics in northern Kenya provides comparative insights to well-known, compelling contexts of violence around the globe.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Being There, Being Friends, Being Uncertain

2. A Case of Testicles: Manufacturing Consent of an Ethnography of Lies?

3. Green Stomachs, Mau Mau, and the Government of Women

4. Killing the Sheik

5. Bad Friends and Good Enemies 164

6. Views on a Massacre: Government and the Making of Order and Disorder

7. War Stories

List of Videos Online

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520965515

0520965515

OCLC:

946277652