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

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Rural development -- Kenya -- Ngecha.
Rural development.
Kenya -- Ngecha.
Women in rural development -- Kenya.
Women in rural development.
Kenya.
Rural women -- Kenya -- Ngecha.
Rural women.
Families -- Kenya.
Families.
Kenya -- Rural conditions -- Case studies.
Rural conditions.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Edwards, Carolyn P.
Whiting, Beatrice Blyth.
Other Form: Print version: Ngecha. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004 0803248091 (DLC) 2003021832 (OCoLC)53186536
ISBN 0803204183 (electronic book)
9780803204188 (electronic book)
0803248091 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780803248090 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
Sudoc No. U5002 T008 -2004