essay
The village and its families
Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change • Lincoln • Published In 2004 • Pages: 21-52
By: Whiting, Beatrice Blyth, Edwards, Carolyn P., Chesaina, Ciarunji, Whiting, John Wesley Mayhew, Herzog, John, Herzog, Dorothy.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is a chapter from an edited volume decribing aspects of child development and community life in a Kikuyu Kenyan vilage called Ngecha. Specif focus of this document includes gender roles and family dynamics as reflected in the lived expereinces of selected informants from different homesteads in the village.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Dwellings
- Inter-community relations
- Real property
- Lineages
- Household
- Education system
- Gender status
- Labor supply and employment
- Division of labor by gender
- Daily routine
- Life history materials
- Informants
- 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 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
- 1900-1973
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ngetcha village, Central Province, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Beatrice Whiting and Carolyn Edwards, with Ciarunji Chesaina, John Whiting, John Herzog, and Dorothy Herzog
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-52)
- 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