Cultural Ideologies of Peace and Conflict: A socio-cognitive study of Giryama Discourse (Kenya)
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Number of pages:
xxi, 304
Year of publication:
2007
Print title:
Krijtenburg F. (2007). Cultural Ideologies of Peace and Conflict: A socio-cognitive study of Giryama discourse (Kenya). Amsterdam: VU Reprografie
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https://ascleiden.nl/kenya-coast/brd/krijtenburg/cultural-ideologies-peace-and-conflict
Summary/abstract:
This study is inspired by the idea that ‘ordinary’ people, and especially their understandings and beliefs, are an essential – yet relatively neglected – factor in intercultural conflict resolution. Within the wider context of social studies of conflict and its attempted resolution this is a cognitive study of people’s understandings (i.e. the cultural understandings) of ‘peace’ and ‘conflict’. The overall framework is that of anthropological linguistics, with its characteristic view of language as linguistic practice.
An analytical model is developed and applied to a case study of the Giryama of Kenya. This model facilitates accounting for an insider view as well as a cross-cultural comparison. It can be used for studying ‘cultural understandings’ of ‘peace’ and ‘conflict’ in other communities,and renders outcomes that can be compared. The research domain is the everyday and public discourse of the Giryama people of Kenya’s coastal hinterland. Five Giryama keywords (focal concepts) are distinguished in the Giryama domain of ‘peace’ and ‘conflict’ and their cultural understandings described.