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Author : Kennell A. Jackson
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Total Pages : 762 pages
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Download or read book An Ethnohistorical Study of the Oral Traditions of the Akamba of Kenya written by Kennell A. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kennell Jackson
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Total Pages : 762 pages
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Download or read book An Ethnohistorical Study of the Oral Traditions of the Akamba of Kenya written by Kennell Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kennell Ardoway Jackson
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Total Pages : 762 pages
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Download or read book An Ethnohistorical Study of the Oral Traditions of the Akamba of Kenya written by Kennell Ardoway Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kennell A. Jackson
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Total Pages : 794 pages
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Download or read book An Ethnohistorical Study of the Oral Traditions of the Akamba of Kenya written by Kennell A. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Berida Ndambuki
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213662
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (136 download)
Download or read book We Only Come Here to Struggle written by Berida Ndambuki and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the life history of Berida Ndambuki, a Kenyan woman trader born in 1936, who speaks movingly of her experiences under the turbulences of late British colonialism and independence. A poverty survivor, Berida overcame patriarchal constraints to reclaim the rights to her labor, her body, and her spirit. She invokes a many-faceted picture of central Kenyan life in this compelling narrative.
Author : Martin Hill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100032463X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Harambee Movement in Kenya written by Martin Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fieldwork study of the social organization of community self-help, which focuses on Kenya's harambee self-help movement. Its origins lie in traditional community work parties and colonial forced labour. The author explores this movement, its principles, political processes, social stratification and developmental planning. The book is intended for students of anthropology, African studies, and development studies.
Author : Katherine Luongo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139503456
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900–1955 written by Katherine Luongo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses the emergence of imperial networks of knowledge about witchcraft. She then demonstrates how colonial concerns about witchcraft produced an elaborate body of jurisprudence about capital crimes. The book analyzes the legal wrangling that produced the Witchcraft Ordinances in the 1910s, the birth of an anthro-administrative complex surrounding witchcraft in the 1920s, the hotly contested Wakamba Witch Trials of the 1930s, the explosive growth of legal opinion on witch-murder in the 1940s, and the unprecedented state-sponsored cleansings of witches and Mau Mau adherents during the 1950s. A work of anthropological history, this book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft or uoi.
Author : Alf Hornborg
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759110281
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Environmental History written by Alf Hornborg and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2007 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world systems over time. Alf Hornborg has brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global, economic processes, with a long-term, historical perspective. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth system with studies of the World system, and to reconceptualize human-environmental relations and the challenges of global sustainability. Immanuel Wallerstein, renowned Yale sociologist and originator of the world-system concept, closes the volume with his reflections on the intellectual, moral, and political implications of global environmental change.
Author : Claire C. Robertson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253112796
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Trouble Showed the Way written by Claire C. Robertson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensive study of gender and trade in Nairobi is “a powerful contribution to African social, economic, and women’s history. Highly recommended” (Choice). Herskovitz Award–winner Claire Robertson employs a variety of approaches to analyze and weave together this wide-ranging study. Her book provides a case study of historical transformations in gender, agriculture, residence, and civil society. Based on archival documents, library sources (fiction and nonfiction, primary and secondary), surveys and oral histories, participant observation, and quantitative and qualitative analysis, Robertson breaks new ground by focusing on traders in one commodity, dried staples, and comparing and contrasting the evolution of women’s trade with men’s trade. “An important resource for anyone interested in the history of women and trade in modern Kenya. . . .” —International Journal of African Historical Studies “A landmark study, meticulously executed and written. . . . it will have a wide impact on some of the most significant questions facing the disciplines of history, anthropology, political science, and development economics.” —Gracia Clark
Author : Cynthia Brantley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520414543
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Giriama and Colonial Resistance in Kenya, 1800–1920 written by Cynthia Brantley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Giriama of Kenya's coastal hinterland persistently resisted colonialism, and they were unreceptive both to Christianity and to Islam. In 1912 the British colonial authorities earmarked the Giriama as a key source of labor for the plantations Europeans were trying to develop along the coast. The Giriama, prosperous producers and traders, could not become wage laborers and maintain their successful economy, and the British demands upon this scattered people therefore were spontaneously rejected. Increased pressure increased Giriama recalcitrance. Finally, military action brought defeat to the Giriama, whose only weapons were bows and arrows and whose decentralization prevented coordinated resistance. They lost their best lands, paid a heavy fine, and had to contribute a thousand laborers to the Carrier Corps. But the British costs were also heavy. The coastal plantations failed, few Giriama ever became wage laborers, and the entire area became depressed economically. Cynthia Brantley explores the precolonial Giriama's political and economic system and their dynamic trade relationship with the coast of Kenya in an effort to explain why the Giriama were so determined in their resistance to British pressure. She shows that even when the political and social structures of a people seem weak, it is unlikely that the population will submit to changes that undermine the economy. Moreover, their very lack of a centralized political or religious organization made the imposition of foreign administration extremely difficult. The British won the war, but their victory was hollow. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Author : Andrew M. Reid
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1441988637
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book African Historical Archaeologies written by Andrew M. Reid and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the range of interactions between the historical sources and archaeology that are available on the African continent. Written by a range of experts on different aspects of African archaeology, this book represents the first consideration of historical archaeology over the African continent as a whole. This seminal volume also explores Africa's place in global systems of thought and economic development and is of interest to historical archaeologists and historians.
Author : J. D. Fage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521204132
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Africa written by J. D. Fage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975-09-18 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at developments in Africa during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Author : Thomas Coomans
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 946270144X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Missionary Spaces written by Thomas Coomans and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘spatial turn’ of missionary places Situated at the crossroads of missionary history, imperial history and colonial architecture, this volume examines the architectural staging and spatial implications of the worldwide expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on specific architectural fragments, analysing the intersection of Christian edifices in colonial and traditional urban settings or unravelling the social understanding of missionary places, each chapter strives to understand the agency of missionary spaces. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and fields, this book aims to centre those missionary spaces by approaching them not merely as décor around and within which the missionary encounter was acted, but by making them part and parcel of it. Through its approach, Missionary Spaces provides a new paradigm for scrutinising the ‘spatial turn’ for missionary histories and contributes to the increased attention across the humanities to space, place, and location since the late 1990s. Space does not occur as an historical given, but as a social construction to be analysed, while at the same time having explanatory value of its own. This book focuses on Africa and the Chinese Region with contributions on Burundi, China, Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, and Taiwan.
Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
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ISBN 13 : 0195382072
Total Pages : 3382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of African Biography written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 3382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
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Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book Kenya Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mickie Mwanzia Koster
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465463
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Power of the Oath written by Mickie Mwanzia Koster and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C Survey Ritual Analysis 2008 and Mungiki Survey Analysis 2011 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : Cora Ann Presley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042971422X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Kikuyu Women, The Mau Mau Rebellion, And Social Change In Kenya written by Cora Ann Presley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on rare oral data from women participants in the "Mau Mau" rebellion, this book chronicles changes in women's domestic reproduction, legal status, and gender roles that took place under colonial rule. The book links labour activism, cultural nationalism, and the more overtly political issues of land alienation, judicial control, and character
