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Women as agents of social changeessay 2004 • Whiting, Beatrice Blyth
Gikuyu • Africa > Eastern Africa
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 f...Paiute sorceryBook 1950 • Whiting, Beatrice Blyth
Northern Paiute • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this monograph the author describes the mechanisms of social control used in regulating interpersonal relationships within the family and band of the Northern Paiute. Her attention is primarily focused upon sorcery (including the fear of sorcery a...The village and its familiesessay 2004 • Whiting, Beatrice Blyth et al.
Gikuyu • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document is a chapter from an edited volume decribing aspects of child development and community life in a Kikuyu Kenyan vilage called Ngecha. Specif focus of this document includes gender roles and family dynamics as reflected in the lived expe...The historical stageessay 2004 • Whiting, Beatrice Blyth et al.
Gikuyu • Africa > Eastern Africa
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...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...Acknowledgementsessay 2004 • Edwards, Carolyn P. & Whiting, Beatrice Blyth
Gikuyu • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document contains the opening pages of an edited volume decribing aspects of child development and community life in a Kikuyu Kenyan vilage called Ngecha....Background and contextsessay 2004 • Edwards, Carolyn P. & Whiting, Beatrice Blyth
Gikuyu • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document introduces a Kenyan village called Ngecha. It describes the physical geography, demography and other aspects of village life by way of setting the background and context for subsequent chapters of an edited volume exploring critical cul...