Culture, Performance and Identity. Paths of Communication in Kenya: Paths of Communication in KenyaOur lives, which are mainly structured according to repeated and socially sanctioned modes of behaviour suggest that human activity is a performance; it is an activity undertaken with a consciousness of itself. We are always aware that someone who has certain expectations about us is watching. In order to satisfy the expectation we behave accordingly. Quite often we are conscious of projecting identity - in politics, in our homes, places of worship, on the street, among colleagues and so on. But how does this happen? This book brings together essays which cover a number of key areas: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land and Youth, Music. Through an examination of the situation in Kenya, the essays opens new ways of understanding forms of local, national and global identity. |
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Contents
| 1 | |
Chapter Two Disability Rhetorics and Identity in Kenya | 40 |
Objective Possibilities | 57 |
Chapter Five Me My KENYA and I | 93 |
Chapter Seven CultureReligion and Identity | 118 |
Chapter Eight Circulation of Media Texts and Identity | 131 |
Music as a Peoples Identity | 145 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Culture, Performance and Identity. Paths of Communication in Kenya: Paths of Communication in Kenya Volume 2 of Art, culture & society series |
| Editor | Kimani Njogu |
| Publisher | African Books Collective, 2008 |
| ISBN | 9966724419, 9789966724410 |
| Length | 196 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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