Author: Heald, Suzette
Title: Controlling Anger : The Sociology of Gisu Violence
Description: London/Manchester, Manchester University Press, (1989). orig. boards, dustwrapper.. ix, 296 pp,, 24x15cm, Includes textual map, tables, charts,g raphs, photos. Series: International African Library, nr. 6.. textual maps,photos,charts. ISBN: 0719025664. Some wear. Light binding corner bumps. Light binding stains. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; The Problem: A Reputation for Violence; Differing Standards: Homicide Statistics & Methodological Implications; The Accusational Nexus: On Being a Man: The Nature of Gisu Experience; Some Sources of Tension: Work, Wealth & Reputation; Witches & Wastrels; Kinship,Community & Cosmology: The Agnatic Charter; Land without Loyalty; Community & Conflict; Excess & Restraint in the Morality of Kinship: Ancestors, Morality & Kinship; Joking & Avoidance: Another Reading of Kinship; Community in the Making: We are the Gisu Government: The New Movements; Mafias in Africa; Epilogue; Appendix: The Homicide Survey.

Keywords: 0719025664 African Ethnology, Uganda, Gisu people, Ethnopsychology, Cross-cultural, Psychology, Homicide, Sociology, East Africa, anthropology