essay
The historical stage
Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change • Lincoln • Published In 2004 • Pages: 53-90
By: Whiting, Beatrice Blyth, Whiting, John Wesley Mayhew, Herzog, John, Edwards, Carolyn P., Curtis, Arnold.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document reconstructs history of a Kenyan village called Ngecha. It describes changes in community organization, economic activities and acess to education and markets by way of setting the historical setting 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
- Community structure
- Settlement patterns
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Puberty and initiation
- Ethnosociology
- Classes
- Family relationships
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Lineages
- External relations
- Revolution
- Aftermath of combat
- Form and rules of government
- 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)
- Ngacha village, Central Province, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Beatrice Whiting, John Whiting, John Herzog, and Carolyn Edwards, with Arnold Curtis
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-90)
- 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