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Making ethnic ways : communities and their transformations in Taita, Kenya, 1800-1950 / Bill Bravman.
Penn Museum Library DT433.545.T3 B73 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bravman, Bill.
- Series:
- Social history of Africa 1099-8098
- Social history of Africa, 1099-8098
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taita (African people)--Ethnic identity.
- Taita (African people).
- Taita (African people)--History.
- Taita (African people)--Religion.
- Ethnicity--Kenya--Taita Hills.
- Ethnicity.
- Christianity and culture--Kenya--Taita Hills.
- Christianity and culture.
- Community life--Kenya--Taita Hills.
- Community life.
- History.
- Taita Hills (Kenya)--Social conditions.
- Taita Hills (Kenya).
- Taita Hills (Kenya)--Ethnic relations.
- Kenya--Taita Hills.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethnicity--Kenya--Taita Hills.
- Taita (African people)--History.
- Taita (African people)--Religion.
- Community life--Kenya--Taita Hills.
- Taita (African people)--Ethnic identity.
- Christianity and culture--Kenya--Taita Hills.
- Taita Hills (Kenya)--Ethnic relations.
- Taita Hills (Kenya)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [1998]
- Summary:
- Based on extensive archival research and substantial fieldwork in Kenya, Braveman's book is an important addition to scholarship on East African history.
- Contents:
- 1 Settlements and Societies in the Taita Hills, to the Late Nineteenth Century 21
- 2 Community Under Stress: Sagalla, Environmental Crisis, and Missionary Imagination, 1883-1888 61
- 3 Early Colonialism and Taita's Local Communities, 1892-1910 80
- 4 Erosions of Lineage and Neighborhood in the Early Colonial Era 107
- 5 Becoming Taita: The Coalescence and Mobilization of an Ethnic Identity, 1900-1930 139
- 6 Being Taita, I: Progressivism, Education, and Changing Terms of Kidassida, 1930-1950 183
- 7 Being Taita, II: The Cultural Politics of Socioeconomic Change, 1930-1950 206
- 8 Formal Power, Political Mobilization, and Struggles over Taita Identity, 1930-1952 229
- Appendix A Bura Church Baptism Rates Prior to World War I 257
- Appendix B Baptismal Records, Bura Mission, 1893-1917 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0325001057
- 0325001049
- 0852556837
- 0852556330
- OCLC:
- 39606454
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