Indigenous African Knowledge Production : : Food-Processing Practices among Kenyan Rural Women / / Njoki Nathani-Wane.

TAmong the rural Embu people of Eastern Kenya, teaching and learning are not purely institutional activities. Instead, knowledge is passed from generation to generation alongside the most mundane activities. In Indigenous African Knowledge Production, Njoki Nathani Wane uses food-processing practice...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2014
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (144 p.) :; 1 Map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Food Processing: Embu Women and Indigenous Knowledges
  • 2. Kenya: The Land, the People, and the Socio-political Economy
  • 3. The Everyday Experiences of Embu Women
  • 4. Food Preservation and Change
  • 5. Gender Relations, Decision Making, and Food Preferences
  • 6. Indigenous Technology and the Influence of New Innovations
  • 7. Removing the Margins: Including Indigenous Women's Voices in Knowledge Production
  • 8. Contesting Knowledge: Some Concluding Thoughts
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index