Controlling Anger: The Sociology of Gisu ViolenceSet in the immediate post-independence period in Uganda, this study deals with the local effects of the collapse of State authority and explores the problem of social control and the construction of male gender identity. Of interest to those studying human emotion, and those studying the consequences of the breakdown of political control in modern Africa. First published in 1989, with the subtitle The Sociology of Gisu Violence. This paperback edition contains a brief preface by the author on political changes in the region. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
A reputation for violence | 17 |
homicide statistics and methodological | 33 |
the nature of Gisu experience | 57 |
work wealth and reputation | 79 |
Witches and wastrels | 106 |
The agnatic charter | 137 |
Land without loyalty | 153 |
Community and conflict | 175 |
Excess and restraint in the morality of kinship | 200 |
the new movements | 229 |
Mafias in Africa | 243 |
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