Facing Mount KenyaKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1965 - 326 pages With an Introduction by Bronislav Malinkowski, 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. The very sight and sound of Kikuyu tribal life presented here are at once comprehensive and intimate, and as precise as they are compassionate. |
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ӨӨ | 5 |
System of Education | 95 |
Initiation of Boys and Girls | 125 |
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activities African age-grade age-group ancestral spirits animals arogi asked banana beer behaviour boys calabash called cattle cere ceremony child circumcision clan clitoridectomy council crops cultivation custom dances district duty economic elders especially European evil spirits family group father feast fire Fort Hall friends Gikuyu country Gikuyu language Gikuyu society Gikuyu system girl girl's give given hand homestead horn husband initiates irua itwika Kere-Nyaga kiama kia Kiambu district killed kinship land tenure living love magic magician maize marriage married Masai mbari missionaries Mogai Mogo Moombi moramati morathi morogi mother Mwene-Nyaga mwere mzungu Ndorobo ndundu Ngai ngoma njama Nyeri oath parents peace polygamy rain religious riika ritual roracio sacred tree sacrifice sexual sexual intercourse sheep and goats sheep or goats social songs spears thing tion tribe Wakamba warriors wife wives woman women young