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Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change / edited by Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice Blyth Whiting.

Title
Ngecha : 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
xiii, 280 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"Ngecha is the study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a village outside Nairobi. From 1968 to 1973 Ngecha was a research site of the Child Development Research Unit, a team that brought together Kenyan and non-Kenyan social scientists under the leadership of John Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting."--BOOK JACKET.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Rural development > Kenya > Ngecha
  • Women in rural development > Kenya
  • Rural women > Kenya > Ngecha
  • Families > Kenya
  • Kenya > Rural conditions > Case studies
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 -- 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.
ISBN
0803248091 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2003021832
OCLC
  • 53186536
  • SCSB-10086087
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library