Worries of the heart : widows, family, and community in Kenya /

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

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Worries of the heart [electronic resource] : widows, family, and community in Kenya / 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 Kenya Maragoli Social conditions.
Women Kenya Maragoli Social conditions.
Families Kenya Maragoli.
Kenya Colonial influence.
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physical xiii, 256 p. : ill., maps.
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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