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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Whiting, Beatrice Blyth
Edwards, Carolyn P.
Chesaina, Ciarunji
Whiting, John Wesley Mayhew, 1908-1999
Herzog, John
Herzog, Dorothy
Title:
The village and its families
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social
change, edited by Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice Blyth Whiting
Published By: Original publisher
Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social
change, edited by Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice Blyth Whiting
Linclon: University of Nebraska Press. 2004. 21-52 p.
ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Beatrice Whiting and Carolyn Edwards, with Ciarunji Chesaina,
John Whiting, John Herzog, and Dorothy Herzog
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2010. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Gikuyu (FL10)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Settlement patterns (361);
Community structure (621);
Dwellings (342);
Inter-community relations (628);
Real property (423);
Lineages (613);
Household (592);
Education system (871);
Gender status (562);
Labor supply and employment (464);
Division of labor by gender (462);
Daily routine (512);
Life history materials (159);
Informants (115);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 expereinces of selected informants from different homesteads in the
village.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
18
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
fl10-018
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-52)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1968-1973
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Pyschologists and Anthropologists-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1900-1973
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Ngetcha village, Central Province,
Kenya
LCSH: Library 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
