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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 : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HN793.N44 N44 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 280 pages : illustrations, map; 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."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Rural development > Kenya > Ngecha
- Women in rural development > Kenya
- Rural women > Kenya > Ngecha
- Families > Kenya
- Families
- Rural conditions
- Rural development
- Rural women
- Women in rural development
- Ländliche Siedlung
- Entwicklung
- Ländlicher Raum
- Frau
- Sozialer Wandel
- Kenya > Rural conditions > Case studies
- Kenya
- Kenya > Ngecha
- Kenia
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Case studies.
- Études de cas.
- 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
- 9780803248090
- LCCN
- 2003021832
- OCLC
- ocm53186536
- 53186536
- SCSB-8979624
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library