House, fire, gender
In this article I examine the Samburu house (pastoralists, northern Kenya) and its fire as the sacred locus of right moral practicesas feminine objects consecrated through proper use. I begin by way of counter-example, however, describing the moral entailments of a particular event, a woman's...
| Published in: | Material religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2007]
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| In: |
Material religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Material Culture
B Samburu (African people) B Religion B House B Gender B Kenya |
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| Summary: | In this article I examine the Samburu house (pastoralists, northern Kenya) and its fire as the sacred locus of right moral practicesas feminine objects consecrated through proper use. I begin by way of counter-example, however, describing the moral entailments of a particular event, a woman's house that caught fire in contentious circumstances. Following this elucidation of houses made sacred or desecrated through use, I will conclude with a discussion of the Samburu house in relation to Samburu understandings of "modernity." Here, I will point out the re-gendering of the Samburu house in the wake of an intriguing trendthe accelerating proliferation of the "modern" house that has frequently become a man's house in a society for which the house has long been a quintessentially feminine space. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2752/174322007780095645 |