Worries of the heart widows, family, and community in Kenya /

Main Author: Mutongi, Kenda.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10265967
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300 |a xiii, 256 p. :  |b ill., maps. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Widows  |x Social conditions.  |z Kenya  |z Maragoli 
650 0 |a Women  |x Social conditions.  |z Kenya  |z Maragoli 
650 0 |a Families  |z Kenya 
651 0 |a Kenya  |x Colonial influence.  |z Maragoli. 
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