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The Mau Mau Rebellion, Kikuyu women, and social change
Canadian journal of African studies • 22 (3) • Published In 1988 • Pages: 502-527
By: Presley, Cora Ann.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses women's contribution to the Mau Mau rebellion and to Kenyan nationalism in general. It argues that women's roles in the Mau Mau rebellion were not limited to smugling food and passing secrets to rebells as some writers claimed. Instead, the document shows, women played critical roles both as organzers of nationalist political rallies and as active agents in the armed insurgency. The author recounts these roles through interviews with several women who, like their male counterparts, were imprisoned and tortured by agents of the colonial governement.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Political movements
- Revolution
- External relations
- Aftermath of combat
- Prisons and jails
- Gender status
- Wartime adjustments
- Real property
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Gender roles and issues
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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
- 1978-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Cora Ann Presley
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79018614
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kikuyu (African people)