Name: Facing Mount Kenya
ISBN: 9780394702100

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Society Up Close

An anthropological study of Kikuyu life, attentive to social structures and literary texture.

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Work, play, family, and life and death in view.
Anthropology with an eye for literary merit.

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A portrait described as both comprehensive and intimate.
Precise, compassionate attention to Kikuyu society.

Book Details

Authors: Jomo Kenyatta
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: February 12, 1962
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: East African History · Southern African History
Reading lane: East African History

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Publisher Categories

East African History
How Cultures Work
Global Black Studies

About This Book

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...

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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.