Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu

Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu
ISBN-10
0394702107
ISBN-13
9780394702100
Category
Social Science
Pages
326
Language
English
Published
1965
Publisher
Vintage Books
Author
Jomo Kenyatta

Description

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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