Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. 2. Kenyatta’s Lament: The Transformation of Ritual Ideologies in Colonial Kenya 28
5. 3. Inflationary Rituals: The Mau Mau Rebellion 60
6. 4. Old Age and Money: The General Numismatics of Independent Kenya 91
7. 5. “Satan Is an Imitator”: Kenya’s Recent Cosmology of Corruption 118
8. 6. Corruptus Interruptus: The Limits of Transactional Imaginaries in Moi’s Kenya 144
9. 7. (Not) Seeing Is Believing: Ethnicity, Trauma, and the Senses in Kenya’s 2007 Postelection Violence 171
10. Coda 190
11. Acknowledgments 197
12. Notes 207
13. Bibliography 217
14. Index 231