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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Whiting, Beatrice Blyth
Title:
Women as agents of social change
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. 93-117 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Beatrice Whiting
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
Gender status (562);
External relations (648);
Division of labor by gender (462);
Dwellings (342);
Real property (423);
Gender roles and issues (890);
Education system (871);
Missions (797);
Labor supply and employment (464);
Tillage (241);
Family relationships (593);
Community structure (621);
Acculturation and culture contact (177);
Sociocultural trends (178);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 forces including colonialism, missionaries, nationalist poloitical momevents
and expanding global markets.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
20
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.
fl10-020
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. 116-117)
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
Anthropologist-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)
Ngecha 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
