NGECHA, A KENYAN VILLAGE IN A TIME OF RAPID CHANGE
Language: English
Published by University of Nebraska Press 2004 1st edition, 2004
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13+280 pages, figures, photographs, map, tables : 9 papers on modernization & nationalism in Ngecha village outside Nairobi 1968-73 with reflections of Ngecha in 2004, mainly from a social science point of view; hardback hardback, John Lonsdale's copy with a little of his ink markings vg vg+ dw - loosely inserted are 2 different printed reviews of the book isbn 0803248091 east africa kenya kenyan villages ngecha gikuyu african modernization nairobi kenya village society.
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- Title
- NGECHA, A KENYAN VILLAGE IN A TIME OF RAPID CHANGE
- Author
- Edwards, Carolyn Pope & Whiting, Beatrice Blyth (eds)
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press 2004 1st edition
- Publication year
- 2004
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0803248091
- ISBN 13
- 9780803248090
The study documents how families adapted to changing opportunities and conditions as their former colony became a modern nation, and the key role that women played as agents of change as they became small-scale cash-crop farmers and entrepreneurs. Mothers modified the culture of their parents to meet the evolving national economy, and they participated in the shift from an agrarian to a wage economy in ways that transformed their workloads and perceptions of isolation and individualism within and between households, thereby challenging traditional family-based morals and obligations. Their children, in turn, experienced evolving educational practices and achievement expectations. The elders faced new situations as well as new modes of treatment. Completing this valuable record of a nation in transition are the long-term reassessments of the observations and conclusions of the research team, and a description of Ngecha today as viewed by Kenyans who participated in the original study.
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