essay
Aging and elderhood
Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change • Lincoln • Published In 2004 • Pages: 179-214
By: Cox, Frances M., Mberia, Ndung'u.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses aging and elderhood in a Kenyan village called Ngecha. It describes changes observed in activities and status of the aged in the face of villagers encounters with colonialism, missionaries, armed liberation struggle, expansion of education and new economic opportunities. The document was originally published as a chapter in an edited volume exploring critical cultural variables affecting parent and child behavior in the village.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Activities of the aged
- Status and treatment of the aged
- Status, role, and prestige
- Informal in-group justice
- Dying
- Missions
- Education system
- Labor supply and employment
- Revolution
- Congregations
- Religious denominations
- Polygamy
- Family relationships
- Real property
- Standard of living
- 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.
- Educator
- 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
- Frances Cox, with Ndung'u Mberia
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 214)
- 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