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Growing up in the Maragoli community in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of her elders, including her widowed mother, praised their former British masters. In this moving book, Mutongi explore...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mutongi, Kenda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Widows > Kenya > Maragoli > Social conditions.
Women > Kenya > Maragoli > Social conditions.
Families > Kenya > Maragoli.
Veuves > Kenya > Maragoli > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Kenya > Maragoli > Conditions sociales.
Familles > Kenya > Maragoli.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
Colonial influence.
Families.
Widows > Social conditions.
Women > Social conditions.
Kenya > Colonial influence.
Kenya.
Kenya > Maragoli.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Everyday life
  • Western Kenya, 1880-1902
  • Feeble little lads looking for food
  • "What harm can an old dry bone do?"
  • Lessons in practical Christianity
  • Living "in line"
  • The impact of gold mining
  • Land conflicts in the 1930s
  • Family life
  • Educating "progressive" sons
  • The burden of "progressive" sons
  • Cash, cows, and bridewealth
  • Domestic education at the girls boarding school
  • Moral panic
  • Wife beating
  • Postcolonial promises
  • Citizenship and land rights in postcolonial Kenya
  • Rural widows, city widows, and the fight for inheritance.

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