Jon Holtzman: 3 books
Uncertain Tastes
Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and...
Killing Your Neighbors
Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
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...
Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives
Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study – the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology.
It provides an opportunity to examine issues of current importance...