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Ngecha today
Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change • Lincoln • Published In 2004 • Pages: 245-264
By: Kimani, Violet N..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document recounts socioeconomic and demographic changes that occurred in the Kenyan village of Ngacha as by a public health researcher who lived there in 1968-1973. The most important of these changes include significant improvements in material and child health services, water and environmental sanitation, nutritional status, morbidity pattern, and social and economic status of villagers.The document was originally published as a chapter in an edited volume exploring critical cultural variables affecting parent and child behavior in Ngacha.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Real property
- Dwellings
- Child care
- Status of children
- Diet
- Labor supply and employment
- Transportation
- Territorial hierarchy
- Topography and geology
- Water supply
- Environmental quality
- 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.
- Public Health Researcher
- 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
- 1968-1973
- 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
- Violet Nyambura Kimani
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 264)
- 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