| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Everyday life -- Western Kenya, 1880-1902 -- Feeble little lads looking for food -- "What harm can an old dry bone do?" -- Lessons in practical Christianity -- Living "in line" -- The impact of gold mining -- Land conflicts in the 1930s -- Family life -- Educating "progressive" sons -- The burden of "progressive" sons -- Cash, cows, and bridewealth -- Domestic education at the girls boarding school -- Moral panic -- Wife beating -- Postcolonial promises -- Citizenship and land rights in postcolonial Kenya -- Rural widows, city widows, and the fight for inheritance. |
| Summary |
Growing up in the Maragoli community in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of her elders, including her widowed mother, praised their former British masters. In this moving book, Mutongi explores how both the challenges and contradictions of colonial rule and the frustrations and failures of independence shaped the lives of Maragoli widows and their complex relations with each other, their families, and the larger community. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, rates. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Widows -- Kenya -- Maragoli -- Social conditions.
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Widows. |
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Kenya -- Maragoli. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- Kenya -- Maragoli -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Families -- Kenya -- Maragoli.
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Families. |
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Kenya -- Colonial influence.
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Kenya. |
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Colonial influence. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Mutongi, Kenda. Worries of the heart. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007 9780226554198 0226554198 (DLC) 2006038721 (OCoLC)76820839 |
| ISBN |
9780226554228 (electronic book) |
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0226554228 (electronic book) |
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1281966002 |
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9781281966001 |
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9780226554198 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226554198 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226554204 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0226554201 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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