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Email from Ngeti

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Email from Ngeti

By James H. Smith, Ngeti Mwadime

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Email from Ngeti is a captivating story of sorcery, redemption, and transnational friendship in the globalized twenty-first century. When the anthropologist James Smith returns to Kenya to begin fieldwork for a new research project, he meets Ngeti Mwadime, a young man from the Taita Hills who is as interested in the United States as Smith is in Taita. Ngeti possesses a savvy sense of humor and an unusual command of the English language, which he teaches himself by watching American movies and me...Show more

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ISBN

9780520281127

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2014

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Email from Ngeti

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