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Paperback Laibon: An Anthropologist's Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya Book

ISBN: 0759120684

ISBN13: 9780759120686

Laibon: An Anthropologist's Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya

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Elliot Fratkin shares the story of his early anthropological fieldwork in Kenya in the 1970s. Using his fieldnotes and letters home to bring to life the voices of those he met, Fratkin invites the reader to experience his cross-cultural friendships with the enigmatic laibon (a diviner and healer of the Samburu and Maasai peoples) Lonyoki, his family, and the people of the nomadic community of Lukumai. Fratkin participated in the daily lives of the...

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