Worries of the heart widows, family, and community in Kenya /
Mutongi, Kenda.
Worries of the heart widows, family, and community in Kenya / [electronic resource] : Kenda Mutongi. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007. - xiii, 256 p. : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Widows--Social conditions.--Kenya--Maragoli
Women--Social conditions.--Kenya--Maragoli
Families--Kenya--Maragoli.
Kenya--Colonial influence.
Electronic books.
HQ1058.5.K4 / M88 2007
306.88/30967628
Worries of the heart widows, family, and community in Kenya / [electronic resource] : Kenda Mutongi. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007. - xiii, 256 p. : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Widows--Social conditions.--Kenya--Maragoli
Women--Social conditions.--Kenya--Maragoli
Families--Kenya--Maragoli.
Kenya--Colonial influence.
Electronic books.
HQ1058.5.K4 / M88 2007
306.88/30967628