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Controlling Anger: The Anthropology of Gisu Violence

Controlling Anger: The Anthropology of Gisu Violence

Paperback

Series: Eastern African Studies

AnthropologyBlack American StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0821412159
ISBN13: 9780821412152
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: Nov 1 1998
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.98
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.42 Depth: 8.53
Language: English

Controlling Anger examines the dilemmas facing rural people who live within the broader context of political instability. Following Uganda's independence from Britain in 1962, the Bagisu men of Southeastern Uganda developed a reputation for extreme violence.

Drawing on a wide range of historical sources including local court records, statistical survey analysis, and intensive fieldwork, Suzette Heald portrays and analyzes the civil violence that grew out of intense land shortage, the marginalization of the Gisu under British rule, and the construction of male gender identity among the Gisu. Now available in a paperback edition with a new preface by the author, Controlling Anger is an important contribution to rural sociology in Africa.

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