Worries of the heart [electronic resource] : widows, family, and community in Kenya / Kenda Mutongi.

By: Mutongi, KendaContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007Description: xiii, 256 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Widows -- Kenya -- Maragoli -- Social conditions | Women -- Kenya -- Maragoli -- Social conditions | Families -- Kenya -- Maragoli | Kenya -- Colonial influenceGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.88/30967628 LOC classification: HQ1058.5.K4 | M88 2007Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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.

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