When anthropologist Sarah Mathew traveled to the borderlands of Kenya and South Sudan in 2008 to study warfare, she asked an interview subject if he had ever been shot. She did not expect to be shown a completely fresh gun wound.
“He had just gotten it two days ago,” she said. The wound was raw, pink and oozing yellow pus.
“My research assistant and I were shocked that he would have come to this interview,” she said. “[It] was a reminder to us about how accustomed people” were to warfare.
Mathew worked with the Turkana, a group of pastoralists who engage in deadly cattle raids. Armed with AK-47s and G-3 automatic rifles,
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