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Background and contexts
Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change • Lincoln • Published In 2004 • Pages: 3-20
By: Edwards, Carolyn P., Whiting, Beatrice Blyth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document introduces a Kenyan village called Ngecha. It describes the physical geography, demography and other aspects of village life by way of setting the background and context for subsequent chapters of an edited volume exploring critical cultural variables affecting parent and child behavior.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Environmental quality
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Lineages
- Research and development
- External relations
- Labor supply and employment
- Gender status
- Division of labor by gender
- Household
- Family relationships
- Polygamy
- Extended families
- Techniques of socialization
- Sex training
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Psychologist
- 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 A. Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1967-1973
- 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
- Carolyn Edwards and Beatrice Whiting
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-20)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2003021832
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kikuyu (African people)/Rural development--Kenya--Ngecha/Women in rural development--Kenya/Rural women--Kenya--Ngecha/Family--Kenya/Kenya--Rural conditions--Case studies