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Worries of the heart : widows, family, and community in Kenya / Kenda Mutongi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.Description: xiii, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226554198 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226554198 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226554204 (paperback : alk. paper)
  • 0226554201 (paperback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.88/30967628 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1058.5.K4 M88 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Books Books JST Library General Stacks HQ<br>The family. Marriage. Women HQ 1058.5.K4 MUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 112170
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-246) and index.

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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