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Household strategies for adaptation and change: participation in Kenyan rural woman's associations
Africa • 58 (4) • Published In 1988 • Pages: 401-422
By: Thomas-Slayter, Barbara P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the strategies Kenyan farming households adapt for improving their socioeconomic standing in the face of policy changes and newly emerging markets. The focus is on the ways some households effectively used their membership and participation in local women's association for mutual help and cooperation to advance interests in government designed rural development programs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Household
- Family relationships
- Research and development
- Cooperative organization
- Gender status
- Social relationships and groups
- Community structure
- Real property
- Revolution
- Education
- Medical care
- Labor supply and employment
- Income and demand
- 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.
- Geographer
- 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
- 1978-1979, 1982, 1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960-1988
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Barbara P. Thomas
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-421)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kikuyu (African people)