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THE SOUTHERN KIKUYU BEFORE 1903
These,is an
important
unbiased primary source for social anthropologists, ethnologists and
social scientists, as well as being of great value to all those
interested in Africa and its history, "But most importantly to those who
are struggling with medical conditions that doctors cannot cure HERE CALLED DWARI,Theones who need to understand the Ugo and MUNDU MUGO,also those
who feel stripped off their culture,those who want to know the true God
by african Kikuyu principles which cut across a great tribal divide from
Kikuyu to Luyha the Maasai,Kamba,Meru ,Embu, or Kisii and Kalengin"
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This impressive book is a complete record of the ways of the Kikuyu
people, before and during the period of European influence which
accompanied road and railway building and political and economic changes
in the late 19th Century. It is the major anthropological achievement
of the late L.S.B. Leakey and the culmination of his life-long study of
the people among whom he was born and raised. Written in the graceful,
readable style characteristic of scholarship in the thirties, it draws
on the memories of the Elders whose confidant Dr. Leakey became. A once
rich source of tradition and culture, passed on intact from generation
to generation, was in danger of drying up without trace – this study,
revised and published now, some forty years after it was first
undertaken, will secure this fascinating collection of information for
posterity now that all the last inheritors of the old Kikuyu way of life
are dead.
Thanks to Dr. Leakey, and to the collaborators who worked on the manuscript after his death, the Kikuyu morals have
been set down – from descriptions of the daily activities of the
people, digging, planting, harvesting, care of animals, trading,
marriage, tribal raiding, dancing and law giving, to the customs
connected with sex, linked with rites of passage, religious
beliefs, magic (Ugo) and medicine. It is a picture of a successful
self-regulating community, in which a strict set of rules and
punishments established order and enabled the tribe to survive within
its environment.
The autonomy of tribal life all over the world is now being eroded,
for better or worse. But this well-rounded study, intricate in its mass
of detail, yet straightforward in approach, seeks to make no assertions
or comparisons with other cultures. It will thus be an important
unbiased primary source for social anthropologists, ethnologists and
social scientists, as well as being of great value to all those
interested in Africa and its history, But most importantly to those who are struggling with medical conditions that doctors cannot cure,those who feel stipped off their culture,those who want ot know the true God by african Kikuyu principles which cut across a great tribal divide from Kikuyu to Luyha the Maasai,Kamba,Meru ,Embu, or Kisii and Kalengin
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