ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1959
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Jomo Kenyatta - Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu
Secker and Warburg, 1959
339 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: dobro
with dust jacket. With Introduction by B Malinowski.

Besides its continuing value for an understanding of the problems of Kenya, Facing Mount Kenya has an enduring place in the literature of social anthropology. As Professor Malinowski wrote in his introduction, it `is a really competent and instructive contribution to African ethnography by a scholar of pure African parentage...As a first-hand account of a representative African culture, as an invaluable document in the principles underlying culture-contact and change; last, but not least, as a personal statement of the new outlook of a progressive African, this book will rank as a pioneering achievement of outstanding merit`.

FACING MOUNT KENYA
The tribal life of The Gikuyu
In this remarkable book, first published in 1938, every aspect of tribal life is dis-cussed origins and kinship, land tenure. economic life, industries, education, initiation, sexual life, marriage system, govern-ment, religion and magic. FACING MOUNT KENYA gives the facts about the Gikuyus. their customs and modes of thought. which are essential for understanding Mau Mau and the present troubles in Kenya. Besides its immediate relevance, it has an enduring place in the literature of social-anthropology.
Professor Malinowski, the famous anthropologist, wrote in his Introduction:
`The present book is a really competent and instructive contribution to African ethnography by a scholar of pure African parentage. Through his upbringing Mr. Kenyatta combines to an unusual extent the knowledge of Western ways and Western modes of thought with a training and outlook essentially African. As a first-hand account of a representative African culture, as an invaluable document in the principles underlying culture-contact and change; last, not least, as a personal statement of the new outlook of a progressive African, this book will rank as a pioneering achievement of outstanding merit.`
`A remarkable book which gives tribal facts that are essential to a comprehensive study of Mau Mau and the present trouble in Kenya.`
Wolverhampton Express and Star.
`Perhaps the chief interest of the book lies in the light which it throws on the character and outlook of Jomo Kenyatta himself.` Church Times.

6th impression.

FULLY ILLUSTRATED.


Nonfiction, Anthropology