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 Sherman Library  HQ1058.5.K4 M88 2007    AVAILABLE  
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Author Mutongi, Kenda.
Title Worries of the heart : widows, family, and community in Kenya / Kenda Mutongi.
OCLC 76820839
ISBN 9780226554198 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226554198 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226554204 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226554201 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publisher Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
©2007
Description xiii, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s Widows -- Kenya -- Maragoli -- Social conditions.
Women -- Kenya -- Maragoli -- Social conditions.
Families -- Kenya -- Maragoli.
Kenya -- Colonial influence.
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.
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