Ngecha

A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change

Autor: Carolyn Pope Edwards

Limbă:

Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: University of Nebraska Press

Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern

Expediem în 9-15 zile

339.11 lei

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

Informații despre carte

Autor

Carolyn Pope Edwards

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2004

Pagini

280

EAN

9780803248090

ISBN

0803248091

Enbook ID

04923403

Editura

University of Nebraska Press

Greutate

590

Dimensiuni

162 x 234 x 28

Descriere completă

"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".

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Ngecha

A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change

Informații despre carte

Descriere completă

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și