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Facing Mount Kenya The Traditional Life Of The Gikuyu
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African Books Collective: Facing Mount Kenya Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is a monograph on the life and customs of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya prior to their contact with Europeans.It is unique in anthropological literature for it gives an account of the social institutions and religious rites of an African people, permeated by the emotions that give to customs and observances their meaning. Facing Mount Kenya: The Traditional Life Of The Gikuyu by ... Facing Mount Kenya is a fantastic book. It details the many aspects of Gikuyu tribal life (& to a large extent African tribal life) before the arrival of the Europeans. As some have already ventured to explain, Facing Mount Kenya is not politically neutral. Kenyatta's partisanship doesn't fail to bleed into every other passage in the book. Facing Mount Kenya: the tribal life of the Gikuyu - Jomo ... 'Facing Mount Kenya' is a central document of the highest distinction in anthropological literature, an invaluable key to the structure of African society and the nature of the African mind. 'Facing Mount Kenya' is not only a formal study of life and death, work and play, sex and the family in one of the greatest tribes of contemporary Africa, but a work of considerable literary merit.
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Facing Mount Kenya The Tribal Life Of The Gikuyu Jomo
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