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Ngecha todayessay 2004 • Kimani, Violet N.
Gikuyu • Africa > Eastern Africa
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...Changing concepts of the good child and good motheringessay 2004 • Whiting, Beatrice Blyth et al.
Gikuyu • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document focues on cultural concepts of childhood and mothering in a Kenyan village called Ngecha. The document was originally published as a chapter in an edited volume exploring critical cultural variables affecting parent and child behavior i...