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"Girl Cases": Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890-1970
by Brett L. Shadle
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, IncorporatedPages: 304
Paperback
ISBN: 9780325070940




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Overview of "Girl Cases": Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890-1970
Brett Shadle's Girl Cases examines the impact of mature colonialism in East Africa on the Gusii and on their strategies to maintain wealth in a era of rapid social change. Girl Cases is a marvelous social history of the epidemic of "girl cases" that seemed to challenge the very nature of Gusii concepts of wealth and security. In an era of increasing bridewealth and stagnating wages, Gusii elders increasing turned to the native courts to control both young women and young men. Employing a sophisticated methodology for mining the transcripts of the regions local courts, Shadle uncovers precious detail on the changing meanings of marriage and strategies of young women and men to define their own futures.
- Richard Roberts; Professor and Director of Center for African Studies; Stanford University
- Richard Roberts; Professor and Director of Center for African Studies; Stanford University
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