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Ethnography of the Gusii of Western Kenya

Author : John Sorana Akama
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ethnography of the Gusii of Western Kenya written by John Sorana Akama and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors have edited a book of essays relating to the Gusii of Western Kenya. This is very significant work since it is a comprehensive study of a culture that is disappearing, and which very little has been written about. The editors have grouped the essays into five parts, each of which focuses upon a different aspect of the Gusii: The Origin and Evolution of the Gusii; Social and Political Institutions; Initiation and Marriage Ceremonies; Land Tenure System and Usage; and Other aspects of Gusii Culture and Ethnography.

The Palgrave Handbook of Kenyan History

Author : Wanjala S. Nasong'o
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031094875
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Kenyan History by : Wanjala S. Nasong'o

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Kenyan History written by Wanjala S. Nasong'o and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers Kenya’s history, society, culture, economics, politics, and environment from precolonial times through the first years of independence. The book comprises twenty-one chapters divided into two parts. Part I focuses on the long precolonial moment, detailing the nature of precolonial Kenyan societies and their economics, politics, gender dynamics, and social organization. Part II examines Kenyan societies’ encounters with British colonialism, critically outlining the impact and implications of these encounters. The volume concludes with an examination of political consolidation after the country’s attainment of political independence and the subsequent foundations for political authoritarianism.

A Pre-colonial History of the Gusii of Western Kenya from C. A.D. 1500 to 1914

Author : William Robert Ochieng'
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pre-colonial History of the Gusii of Western Kenya from C. A.D. 1500 to 1914 written by William Robert Ochieng' and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Dictionary of Kenya

Author : Michael Mwenda Kithinji
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538157462
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Kenya written by Michael Mwenda Kithinji and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya has a rich and complex history. Due to the vast discoveries of prehistoric archaeological remains, Kenya is one of the few places in the world with the largest and most complete record of human’s cultural development. Furthermore, the country’s strategic location astride the Indian Ocean and the East African littoral attracted numerous foreigners such as the Arabs, Persians, Portuguese, Americans, British, Chinese, French, and Germans. Additionally, immigrants from throughout Africa and beyond have settled in Kenya to escape conflict or political persecution, while others wanted an opportunity to begin a new life. As a result of being a gateway to the world, the country traditionally has been one of the most important business, cultural, diplomatic, and political centers in Africa. Still, Kenya, like many other countries throughout the world, has been plagued by an increasing array of complex economic, political, and social challenges. Historical Dictionary of Kenya, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Kenya.

Ethnography and Human Development

Author : Richard Jessor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226399027
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Ethnography and Human Development written by Richard Jessor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-08 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of human development have taken an ethnographic turn in the 1990s. In this volume, leading anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists discuss how qualitative methodologies have strengthened our understanding of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development, and of the difficulties of growing up in contemporary society. Part 1, informed by a post-positivist philosophy of science, argues for the validity of ethnographic knowledge. Part 2 examines a range of qualitative methods, from participant observation to the hermeneutic elaboration of texts. In Part 3, ethnographic methods are applied to issues of human development across the life span and to social problems including poverty, racial and ethnic marginality, and crime. Restoring ethnographic methods to a central place in social inquiry, these twenty-two lively essays will interest everyone concerned with the epistemological problems of context, meaning, and subjectivity in the behavioral sciences.

A Tapestry of African Histories

Author : Nicholas K. Githuku
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793623945
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book A Tapestry of African Histories written by Nicholas K. Githuku and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a geopolitically transcendent lens that brings African countries into conversation with other pertinent histories both within and outside of the continent. The collection analyzes the pre- and post-colonial eras within African countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Sudan, examining major historical figures and events, struggles for independence and stability, contemporary urban settlements, social and economic development, as well as constitutional, legal, and human rights issues that began in the colonial era and persist to this day.

Kenyas Past as Prologue

Author : Marie-Aude Fouere
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9966028528
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Kenyas Past as Prologue written by Marie-Aude Fouere and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the run-up to Kenyas 2013 general elections, crucial political and civic questions were raised. Could past mistakes, especially political and ethnic-related violence, be avoided this time round? Would the spectre of the 2007 post-electoral violence positively or negatively affect debates and voting? How would politicians, electoral bodies such as the IEBC, the Kenyan civil society, and the international community weigh in on the elections? More generally, would the 2013 elections bear witness to the building up of an electoral culture in Kenya, characterized by free and fair elections, or would it show that voting is still weakened by political malpractices, partisan opinions and emotional reactions? Would Kenyas past be inescapable or would it prepare the scene for a new political order? Kenyas Past as Prologue adopts a multidisciplinary perspective mainly built upon field-based ethnography and a selection of case studies to answer these questions. Under the leadership of the French Institute for Research in Africa (Institut francais de recherche en Afrique, IFRA), political scientists, historians and anthropologists explore various aspects of the electoral process to contribute in-depth analyses of the last elections. They highlight the structural factors underlying election and voting in Kenya including the political system, culture and political transition. They also interrogate the short-term trends and issues that influence the new political order. The book provides insight into specific case studies, situations and contexts, thus bringing nuances and diversity into focus to better assess Kenyas evolving electoral democracy.

A Pre-colonial History of the Gusii of Western Kenya from C. A.D. 1500 to 1 914

Author : William Robert Ochieng'
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book A Pre-colonial History of the Gusii of Western Kenya from C. A.D. 1500 to 1 914 written by William Robert Ochieng' and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Uncertain Age

Author : Paul Ocobock
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821445987
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book An Uncertain Age written by Paul Ocobock and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They also shaped East Africans’ contact with and influence on emergent colonial and global ideas about age and masculinity. Kenyan men and boys came of age achieving their manhood through changing rites of passage and access to new outlets such as town life, crime, anticolonial violence, and nationalism. And as they did, the colonial government appropriated masculinity and maturity as means of statecraft and control. In An Uncertain Age, Paul Ocobock positions age and gender at the heart of everyday life and state building in Kenya. He excavates in unprecedented ways how the evolving concept of “youth” motivated and energized colonial power and the movements against it, exploring the masculinities boys and young men debated and performed as they crisscrossed the colony in search of wages or took the Mau Mau oath. Yet he also considers how British officials’ own ideas about masculinity shaped not only young African men’s ideas about manhood but the very nature of colonial rule. An Uncertain Age joins a growing number of histories that have begun to break down monolithic male identities to push the historiographies of Kenya and empire into new territory.

Gender Gaps and Economic Development

Author : Miriti Lydiah
Publisher : IPR Journals and Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9914728111
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Gender Gaps and Economic Development written by Miriti Lydiah and published by IPR Journals and Book Publishers. This book was released on with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOPICS IN THE BOOK The Gender Gaps in Challenges Facing Farmers in Improved Bee Keeping: Case of the Maasai Community in Trans Mara, Narok County, Kenya Gender Gaps in Decision Making Power in Households: Case of Improved Bee Keeping among the Maasai Community in Trans Mara, Narok County, Kenya Making Microfinance Work for the Poor: Experiences of Women Slum Dwellers in Ghana Land Ownership as Symbol of Gender Power Relations in Gusii, Kenya: A Historical Perspective Teenage Pregnancies and Girls Education Capabilities in Nzambani Ward Kitui County in Kenya: School and Community Perspective

Historical Dictionary of Kenya

Author : Robert M. Maxon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810874695
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Kenya written by Robert M. Maxon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya has a long and complex history that began thousands of years ago. Indeed, some archaeologists contend that the country was the "cradle of mankind" or, at the very least, one of the places that was home to the earliest hominids. In later centuries, Kenya's strategic location astride the Indian Ocean and the East African littoral attracted numerous foreign peoples, some of the most significant of which have been the Americans, Arabs, British, Chinese, French, Germans, and Portuguese. Additionally, Africans from throughout the subcontinent have settled in Kenya to escape conflict or political persecution, while others wanted an opportunity to begin a new life. As a result of being a gateway to the world, the country traditionally has been one of the most important business, cultural, diplomatic, and political centers in Africa. Although it has maintained this reputation during the post-independence period, Kenya, like most African countries, has been plagued by an increasing array of complex economic, political, and social problems. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Kenya provides a starting point for those interested in any of the phases of Kenya's historical evolution. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Kenya.

Nyansongo, a Gusii Community in Kenya

Author : Robert Alan LeVine
Publisher : Huntington, N.Y. : R. E. Krieger Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nyansongo, a Gusii Community in Kenya written by Robert Alan LeVine and published by Huntington, N.Y. : R. E. Krieger Publishing Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient African Religions

Author : Robert M. Baum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019774706X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Ancient African Religions written by Robert M. Baum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history of religions in Africa from the burial practices of the earliest humans to the rise of centralized theocratic kingdoms like ancient Egypt up to the rise of Islam in the Seventh Century.

Culture and Community

Author : Bob Wishitemi
Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9051708513
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Community written by Bob Wishitemi and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cultures and communities in Africa both feed and fight the European tourism image of Africa. 'The European tourist gaze' of Africa is primarily that of a pristine, pure, 'uncivilised', 'wild', 'close to nature' continent with all pictorial associations and representations that come with these words, like huts, water buckets on women's heads, far and free horizons, lions and non-urban. This is the image that sells and lures (Western) tourists to Africa. In this book scientists from Europe and Africa join hands in presenting and critically analysing cases from eastern and southern Africa that show the cultural complexities and social intricacies that lie behind the touristic representations of Africa and Africans"--Cover.

Woman as Mother and Wife in the African Context of the Family in the Light of John Paul II’s Anthropological and Theological Foundation

Author : Joseph Okech Adhunga
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493185284
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Woman as Mother and Wife in the African Context of the Family in the Light of John Paul II’s Anthropological and Theological Foundation written by Joseph Okech Adhunga and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the theological and anthropological foundations of the understanding of the dignity and vocation of woman as a mother and wife, gifts given by God that expresses the riches of the African concept of family. There are two approaches to inculturation theology in Africa, namely, that which attempts to construct African theology by starting from the biblical ecclesial teachings and find from them what features of African culture are relevant to the Christian theological and anthropological values, and the other one which takes the African cultural background as the point of departure. According to John Paul II, the dignity and vocation of woman is “something more universal, based on the very fact of her being a woman within all the interpersonal relationships, which, in the most varied ways, shape society and structure the interaction between all persons,” (Mulieris Dignitatem no. 29). This “concerns each and every woman, independent of the cultural context in which she lives and independently of her spiritual, psychological and physical characteristics, as for example, age, education, health, work, and whether she is married or single,” (Mulieris Dignitatem, no. 29). The theology of inculturation as presented in this dissertation opens the way for the integration of the theological anthropological teachings of John Paul II in understanding African woman as mother and wife.

Catholic Theological Ethics, Past, Present, and Future

Author : James F. Keenan
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608330702
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Catholic Theological Ethics, Past, Present, and Future written by James F. Keenan and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international meeting in Trento in July 2010 brought together some 500 theological ethicists from nearly 75 countries. This volume represents the "state of the art" in mural theology from around the globe, with contributors from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Divided into three main parts (the past, the present, and the future), contributors include John W. O'Malley (foreword); Monsignor Luigi Bressan, Archbishop of Trento; James F. Keenan; Archbishop Bruno Forte; Mercy Amba Oduyoye (Ghana); Ahmad Syafii Ma'arif, Ma'arif Institut (Indonesia), Paolo Prodi (Italy), Laurenti Magesa (Kenya), Regina Ammicht-Quinn Germany, Alberto Bondolfi (Switzerland), Diego Alonso-Lasheras (Italy), Roger Burggraeve (Belgium), Anne Nasimiyu (Kenya), Bryan Massingale (US), Antonio Moser (Brazil). ric Gaziaux (Belgium), Margaret Farley (US), Benezet Bujo (Switzerland), Brian Johnstone (US), Miguel ngel S nchez Carlos (Mexico), David Kaulem (Zimbabwe), Leo Pessini (Brazil), Pushpa Joseph (India), Margaret Ogala (Kenya), Julie Hanlon Rubio (US), Aloysius Cartagenas (Philippines), Christa Schnabl (Austria), Simone Morandini (Italy), Myroslav Marynovych (Ukraine), Peter Henriot (Zambia), Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich-Freising (Germany), Julie Clague (Scotland), Shaji George Kochuthara (India), and Mar a Teresa D vila (US).

The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies

Author : Tazim Jamal
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446206629
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies written by Tazim Jamal and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The strongest overview I have encountered of the scope and the current state of research across all the fields involved in advancing our understanding of tourism. For its range of topics, depth of analyses, and distinction of its contributors, nothing is comparable." - Professor Dean MacCannell, University of California, Davis "The breadth of vision and sweep of accounts is remarkable, and range of topics laudable... a rare combination of the authoritative, the challenging and stimulating." - Professor Mike Crang, Durham University Tourism studies developed as a sub-branch of older disciplines in the social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology and economics, and newer applied fields of study in hospitality management, civil rights and transport studies. This Handbook is a sign of the maturity of the field. It provides an essential resource for teachers and students to determine the roots, key issues and agenda of tourism studies, exploring: The evolution and position of tourism studies The relationship of tourism to culture The ecology and economics of tourism Special events and destination management Methodologies of study Tourism and transport Tourism and heritage Tourism and postcolonialism Global tourist business operations Ranging from local to global issues, and from questions of management to the ethical dilemmas of tourism, this is a comprehensive, critically informed, constructively organized overview of the field. It draws together an inter-disciplinary group of contributors who are among the most celebrated names in the field and will be quickly recognized as a landmark in the new and expanding field of tourism studies.