Ngecha

A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change

Autor: Carolyn Pope Edwards

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Wydawca: University of Nebraska Press

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"Ngecha" is the monumental and intimate study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa i...

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Autor

Carolyn Pope Edwards

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2004

strony

280

EAN

9780803248090

ISBN

0803248091

Enbook ID

04923403

Wydawca

University of Nebraska Press

Waga

590

Wymiary

162 x 234 x 28

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"Ngecha" is the monumental and intimate study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a village outside Nairobi. From 1968 to 1973 Ngecha was a research site of the Child Development Research Unit, a team which brought together Kenyan and non-Kenyan social scientists under the leadership of John Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting.The study documents how families adapted to changing opportunities and conditions as their former colony became a modern nation, and the key role that women played as agents of change as they became small-scale cash-crop farmers and entrepreneurs. Mothers modified the culture of their parents to meet the evolving national economy, and they participated in the shift from an agrarian to a wage economy in ways that transformed their workloads and perceptions of isolation and individualism within and between households, thereby challenging traditional family-based morals and obligations. Their children, in turn, experienced evolving educational practices and achievement expectations. The elders faced new situations as well as new modes of treatment.Completing this valuable record of a nation in transition are the long-term reassessments of the observations and conclusions of the research team, and a description of Ngecha today as viewed by Kenyans who participated in the original study. Carolyn Pope Edwards is Willa Cather Professor and a professor of psychology and of family and consumer sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Beatrice Blyth Whiting was a professor of anthropology and education at Harvard University. Whiting and Edwards are co-authors of "Children of Different Worlds: The Formation of Social Behavior".

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