LEADER 03649nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910782434103321 005 20230207225828.0 010 $a1-281-96600-2 010 $a0-226-55422-8 010 $a9786611966003 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226554228 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579185 035 $a(EBL)408633 035 $a(OCoLC)476230002 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000275018 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11210164 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000275018 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10331709 035 $a(PQKB)10272165 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123128 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408633 035 $a(DE-B1597)524720 035 $a(OCoLC)1058454461 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226554228 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408633 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265967 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196600 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579185 100 $a20061127d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWorries of the heart$b[electronic resource] $ewidows, family, and community in Kenya /$fKenda Mutongi 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-55420-1 311 $a0-226-55419-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEveryday life -- Western Kenya, 1880-1902 -- Feeble little lads looking for food -- "What harm can an old dry bone do?" -- Lessons in practical Christianity -- Living "in line" -- The impact of gold mining -- Land conflicts in the 1930s -- Family life -- Educating "progressive" sons -- The burden of "progressive" sons -- Cash, cows, and bridewealth -- Domestic education at the girls boarding school -- Moral panic -- Wife beating -- Postcolonial promises -- Citizenship and land rights in postcolonial Kenya -- Rural widows, city widows, and the fight for inheritance. 330 $aGrowing up in the Maragoli community in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of her elders, including her widowed mother, praised their former British masters. In this moving book, Mutongi explores how both the challenges and contradictions of colonial rule and the frustrations and failures of independence shaped the lives of Maragoli widows and their complex relations with each other, their families, and the larger community. Throughout the twentieth century... 606 $aWidows$zKenya$zMaragoli$xSocial conditions 606 $aWomen$zKenya$zMaragoli$xSocial conditions 606 $aFamilies$zKenya$zMaragoli 607 $aKenya$xColonial influence 610 $akenya, kenyan, africa, african, family, familial relationships, widows, marriage, loss, grief, history, historical contexts, maragoli community, colonialism, widowed, postcolonialism, colonial rule, independence, cultural studies, society, widowhood, rural areas, citizenship, disenchantment, ethnography, ethnographic research, women, gender study, influences, christianity, religion, religious, gold, mining, land, conflicts, domestic education, boarding schools, inheritance. 615 0$aWidows$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aFamilies 676 $a306.88/30967628 700 $aMutongi$b Kenda$01098243 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782434103321 996 $aWorries of the heart$93868307 997 $aUNINA