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Ngecha a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change

Title
Ngecha [electronic resource] : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change / edited by Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice Blyth Whiting.
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Edwards, Carolyn P.
  • Whiting, Beatrice Blyth.
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 280 p.) : ill., map.
Uniform Title
Ngecha (Online)
Subject
  • Rural development > Kenya > Ngecha
  • Women in rural development > Kenya
  • Rural women > Kenya > Ngecha
  • Families > Kenya
  • Kenya > Rural conditions > Case studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Opening: "New dawn." Background and contexts / Carolyn Edwards and Beatrice Whiting -- The village and its families / Beatrice Whiting and Carolyn Edwards, with Ciarunji Chesaina, John Whiting, John Herzog, and Dorothy Herzog -- The historical stage / Beatrice Whiting, John Whiting, John Herzog, and Carolyn Edwards, with Arnold Curtis -- Interlude: "Let women be supported." Women as agents of social change / Beatrice Whiting -- Changing concepts of the good child and good mothering / Beatrice Whiting, with Ciarunji Chesaina, Grace Diru, Jonah Ichoya, Priscilla Kariuki, Violet Nyambura Kimani, Irene Kamau, Rose Maina, Wanjiku Munge-Kagia, Jane Mwangi, John Whiting, Thomas Landauer, and Lynn Streeter -- The teaching of values old and new / Ciarunji Chesaina -- Aging and elderhood / Frances Cox, with Ndung'u Mberia -- The university as gateway to a complex world / Carolyn Edwards, with E.G. Runo and Ezra Arap Maritim -- Ngecha today / Violet Nyambura kimani.
LCCN
2003021832
OCLC
ssj0000211140
Title
Ngecha [electronic resource] : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change / edited by Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice Blyth Whiting.
Imprint
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Edwards, Carolyn P.
Whiting, Beatrice Blyth.
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