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Controlling Anger : The Sociology of Gisu Violence by Heald, Suzette - (1989)

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Controlling Anger : The Sociology of Gisu Violence by Heald, Suzette - (1989)

Controlling Anger : The Sociology of Gisu Violence

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Some wear. Light binding corner bumps. Light binding stains. VG., dustwrapper. textual maps,photos,charts African Ethnology Manchester University Press London/Manchester (1989) orig. boards ix, 296 pp,, 24x15cm, Includes textual map, tables, charts,g raphs, photos. Series: International African Library, nr. 6. Contents: Introduction; The Problem: A Reputation for Violence; Differing Standards: Homicide Statistics & Methodological Implications; The Accusational Nexus: On Being a Man: The Nature of Gisu Experience; Some Sources of Tension: Work, Wealth & Reputation; Witches & Wastrels; Kinship,Community & Cosmology: The Agnatic Charter; Land without Loyalty; Community & Conflict; Excess & Restraint in the Morality of Kinship: Ancestors, Morality & Kinship; Joking & Avoidance: Another Reading of Kinship; Community in the Making: We are the Gisu Government: The New Movements; Mafias in Africa; Epilogue; Appendix: The Homicide Survey.
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  • Book Condition Used - Some wear. Light binding corner bumps. Light binding stains. VG., dustwrapper.
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  • ISBN 10 0719025664
  • ISBN 13 9780719025662
  • Publisher Manchester University Press
  • Date Published (1989)
  • Keywords Uganda Gisu people Ethnopsychology Cross-cultural Psychology Homicide Sociology East Africa anthropology

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Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, 1989. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Previous owners' name to the head of the title page. Occasional pen & pencil underlining and marginalia throughout the text, from the working library of Paul Spencer, one of the leading British social anthropologists of his generation, from whose estate this was acquired. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (black boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (0.8 kg); (xi) 296pp; Index; In the International African Library series; Number 6 in the series. Contains: Black & white photographs; Maps; Tables; References; Glossary; ISBN: 0719025664 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the… Read More
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Manchester; New York New York: Manchester University Press, for the International African Institute, London; Distributed in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xi, 296 pages: ill; map; 25cm. Subjects: Gisu (African people) Social conditions. Gisu (African people) Psychology. East Africa Gisu Social conflict.
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