List of illustrations .......................................... ix
Preface ........................................................ xi
People ......................................................... xv
Prologue ........................................................ l
1 The statue ................................................... 5
2 House key ................................................... 31
3 Among women ................................................. 42
4 Blood brothers .............................................. 56
5 Daggers and debutants ....................................... 68
6 Stormy Sunday ............................................... 89
7 Three things that matter ................................... 104
8 The making of great men .................................... 118
9 A game of chess ............................................ 131
10 Cholera song ............................................... 145
11 Progress ................................................... 158
12 Brothers and strangers ..................................... 172
13 Exile and return ........................................... 185
14 Field work ................................................. 195
15 The chicken's neck ......................................... 210
16 Good deaths and bad deaths ................................. 227
17 First family ............................................... 241
18 Blessing ................................................... 255
19 Half an egg ................................................ 275
20 Waiting .................................................... 286
21 Death of a chief ........................................... 301
22 Ama Jonah at bay ........................................... 320
23 Unravelling ................................................ 341
24 The ethnographer and his double ............................ 357
Epilogue ...................................................... 363
Index ......................................................... 370
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