Worries of the heart : widows, family, and community in Kenya / Kenda Mutongi.
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TextPublication 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)
- 306.88/30967628 22
- HQ1058.5.K4 M88 2007
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| HQ 1001 GIR What is marriage? : man and woman : a defense / | HQ 1031 ATA Mixed marriages: | HQ 1031 BES Interfaith marriages: | HQ 1058.5.K4 MUT Worries of the heart : widows, family, and community in Kenya / | HQ 1059.4.OCO Understanding the mid-life crisis | HQ 1059.4.OCO Understanding the mid-life crisis | HQ 1061 CHI The gift of years : |
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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