Worries of the heart : widows, family, and community in Kenya / / Kenda Mutongi.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 256 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of 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.