Worries of the heart [electronic resource] : widows, family, and community in Kenya / Kenda Mutongi.
Mutongi, Kenda.
2007
HQ1058.5.K4 M88 2007eb
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Title Worries of the heart [electronic resource] : widows, family, and community in Kenya / Kenda Mutongi.
Author Mutongi, Kenda.
ISBN 9780226554198 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226554198 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226554204 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226554201 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
Language English
Description xiii, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number HQ1058.5.K4 M88 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.88/30967628
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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