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Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change /
- Title
- Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change / edited by Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice Blyth Whiting.
- Publication
- Lincoln [Neb.] ; London : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.
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- Description
- xiii, 280 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 -- Closing : "hope on the horizon".
- ISBN
- 0803248091 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003021832
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library