Book
Voices from Mutira: change in the lives of rural Gikuyo women, 1910-1995
Lynne Rienner Publishers • Boulder • Published In 1996 • Pages:
By: Davison, Jean.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book documents and analyzes the lives of rural women in a central Kenyan locality called Mutira. It provides detailed biographies of seven women selected for representing diverse households from three generations, spanning several decades (1910-1995). The focus is not lmited to what these women experienced in their everyday lives. It also discusses the various strategies each woman pursued to benefit from broader political and socioeconomic changes brought by colonialism, missionaries, and, following Kenya's independence in 1960, goverenment designed development programs. By doing so, the book provides a critical analysis of social and historical changes that have occurred in the Kenyan highlands from the point of the women themsleves.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Community structure
- Household
- Division of labor by gender
- Techniques of socialization
- Puberty and initiation
- Gender status
- Gender roles and issues
- Family relationships
- Marriage
- Real property
- Revolution
- Inheritance
- Research and development
- Missions
- Education
- Cooperative organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Gikuyu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1983-1984, 1992, 1994
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1910-1995
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mutira, Central Province, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jean Davison with the women of Mutira
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-270)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95046622
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kikuyu (African people)/Women, Kikuyu--Kenya--Kirinyaga District--Interviews/Women, Kikuyu--Kenya--Kirinyaga District--Social conditions/Rural women--Kenya--Kirinyaga District--Interviews/Rural women--Kenya--Kirinyaga District--Social conditions