Ngecha: A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social ChangeCarolyn P. Edwards, Beatrice Blyth Whiting U of Nebraska Press, 1 Ιαν 2004 - 280 σελίδες Ngecha is the monumental and intimate study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a village outside Nairobi. From 1968 to 1973 Ngecha was a research site of the Child Development Research Unit, a team that brought together Kenyan and non-Kenyan social scientists under the leadership of John Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting. The study documents how families adapted to changing opportunities and conditions as their former colony became a modern nation, and the key role that women played as agents of change as they became small-scale cash-crop farmers and entrepreneurs. Mothers modified the culture of their parents to meet the evolving national economy, and they participated in the shift from an agrarian to a wage economy in ways that transformed their workloads and perceptions of isolation and individualism within and between households, thereby challenging traditional family-based morals and obligations. Their children, in turn, experienced evolving educational practices and achievement expectations. The elders faced new situations as well as new modes of treatment. Completing this valuable record of a nation in transition are the long-term reassessments of the observations and conclusions of the research team, and a description of Ngecha today as viewed by Kenyans who participated in the original study. |
Περιεχόμενα
FIGURES | 7 |
List of Illustrations | 9 |
Background and Contexts | 11 |
Woman preparing mashed vegetables | 19 |
The Village and Its Families | 21 |
Ngecha center | 35 |
The Historical Stage | 53 |
Gichuru Harambee Secondary School | 65 |
Young girls roleplaying feminine | 115 |
Changing Concepts of the Good Child | 119 |
Boy constructing car from pieces | 137 |
The Teaching of Values Old and | 153 |
Boy helping care for his familys | 161 |
Aging and Elderhood | 179 |
The University as Gateway to | 215 |
28 | 218 |
fodder for family | 71 |
21 | 83 |
Boy serving as nurse to younger | 87 |
Let Women Be Supported | 91 |
Chapter 4 | 93 |
Ngecha Today | 245 |
Tigoni House | 253 |
Hope on the Horizon | 265 |
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Ngecha: A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change Carolyn P. Edwards,Beatrice Blyth Whiting Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2004 |
Ngecha: A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change Carolyn P. Edwards,Beatrice Blyth Whiting Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 2004 |
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