Mutongi, Kenda.
Worries of the heart : - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007. - xiii, 256 p. : ill., maps ;
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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Worries of the heart : - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007. - xiii, 256 p. : ill., maps ;
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.
9780226554198 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226554198 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226554204 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226554201 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Widows
Women
Families
306.8830