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Women as agents of social change
Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change • Lincoln • Published In 2004 • Pages: 93-117
By: Whiting, Beatrice Blyth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses the role women as agents of social change in a Kenyan village called Ngecha. It focuses on the ways Kikuyu women remained active forces for change by effectively mediating the local consequences of a wide variety of external forces including colonialism, missionaries, nationalist poloitical momevents and expanding global markets.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- External relations
- Division of labor by gender
- Dwellings
- Real property
- Gender roles and issues
- Education system
- Missions
- Labor supply and employment
- Tillage
- Family relationships
- Community structure
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- 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 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
- 1900-1973
- 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
- Beatrice Whiting
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-117)
- 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