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Social change in adolescent sexual behavior, mate selection, and premarital pregancy rates in a Kikuyu community
Ethos • 15 (2) • Published In 1987 • Pages: 145-165
By: Worthman, Carol M., Whiting, John Wesley Mayhew.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study discusses adolescent fertility and marriage patterns in Ngecha village, Kenya. Comparing data from 1950 with that of 1980, the study shows substantial increases in rate of unwed motherhood. The author accounts this increase to broad cultural changes relating to socialization, adolescent sexual behavior and mate selection.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Premarital sex relations
- Conception
- Community structure
- Extended families
- Adolescent activities
- Puberty and initiation
- Techniques of socialization
- Sex training
- Social personality
- Sexual stimulation
- Sexual intercourse
- Marriage
- Ethics
- 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.
- 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
- 1968-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1987
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ngecha village, Central Province, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Carol M. Worthman and John W. M. Whiting
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-165)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73643517
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kikuyu (African people)