Book
Mothers and wives: Gusii women of East Africa
University of Chicago Press • Chicago • Published In 1979 • Pages:
By: LeVine, Sarah, LeVine, Robert Alan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document consists of a series of seven case studies of Gusii women dealing with their concepts of motherhood and childbearing. These concepts, which are not necessarily typical of their people as a whole, represent a broad range of variation among contemporary married women over an extended period of time and discussed with a foreign investigator of their own gender. The author describes the psychological functioning of these women in regard to patterns of thought, feelings, and actions manifested in the management of their daily lives and their reactions to crisis. LeVine attempts to discover the sources of their self-esteem and other forms of personal satisfaction, and the expectation involved in their contemporary relationships with other people. In general these case studies were intended to explore the impact of cultural beliefs and socioeconomic change on the experience and behavior of Gusii women during their adult years (p. 3).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Observation in research
- Interviewing in research
- Drives and emotions
- Social personality
- Life history materials
- Family relationships
- Parents-in-law and children-in-law
- Siblings-in-law
- Sorcery
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Gusii
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1974-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1955-1957, 1974-1976
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Morongo (a pseudonym), southwestern Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sarah LeVine in collaboration with Robert A. LeVine
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-391) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78021573
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Gusii (African people)