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

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Main Author: Mutongi, Kenda
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
Subjects:
Widows > Kenya > Maragoli > Social conditions.
Women > Kenya > Maragoli > Social conditions.
Families > Kenya > Maragoli.
Kenya > Colonial influence.
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Table of 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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