TY - BOOK ID - 77874605 TI - Worries of the heart PY - 2007 SN - 1281966002 0226554228 9786611966003 9780226554228 9781281966001 0226554198 9780226554198 9780226554198 0226554198 9780226554204 0226554201 6611966005 PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Widows KW - Women KW - Families KW - Family KW - Family life KW - Family relationships KW - Family structure KW - Relationships, Family KW - Structure, Family KW - Social institutions KW - Birth order KW - Domestic relations KW - Home KW - Households KW - Kinship KW - Marriage KW - Matriarchy KW - Parenthood KW - Patriarchy KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Marital status KW - Social conditions. KW - Social aspects KW - Social conditions KW - Kenya KW - Cenia KW - Chenia KW - Colony and Protectorate of Kenya KW - GOK KW - Government of Kenya KW - Jamhuri ya Kenya KW - Kenia KW - Kenii︠a︡ KW - Kenniya KW - Kenya Colony and Protectorate KW - Ḳenyah KW - Kīniyā KW - Kīnyā KW - Quênia KW - Republic of Kenya KW - Кения KW - קניה KW - كينيا KW - ケニア KW - 肯尼亚 KW - East Africa Protectorate KW - Colonial influence. KW - Veuves KW - Femmes KW - Familles KW - Conditions sociales KW - Influence coloniale KW - kenya, 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. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874605 AB - Growing 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... ER -