Facing Mount Kenya
the tribal life of the Gikuyu
by Jomo Kenyatta
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Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is an anthropological study of the people of the Kikuyu tribe of central Kenya. It was written by native Kikuyu and future Kenyan president Jomo Kenyatta.
The book's introduction was written by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, who mentored Kenyatta while both were at the London School of Economics. Malinowski wrote 'As a first-hand account of a representative African culture, as an invaluable document in the principles underlying culture-contact and change and as a personal statement of the new outlook of a progressive African, this book will rank as a pioneering achievement of outstanding merit.'
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Anthropology, East Africa, Ethnology, Kikuyu (African people), Kikuyu tribe, Primitive, Primitive societies, Society, Bantu-speaking peoples, Ethnology, kenya, Kikuyu (volk)Places
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Facing Mount Kenya: the tribal life of the Gikuyu
1978, AMS Press
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0404146767 9780404146764
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Facing Mount Kenya: the tribal life of the Gikuyu
1971, Heinemann Educational Books
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0435926012 9780435926014
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Reprint of the 1953 issue of the work originally published in 1938 by Secker and Warburg, London.
Includes index.
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