Facing Mount Kenya
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 12, 1962
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- Who it’s for
- An anthropological study of Kikuyu life, attentive to social structures and literary texture.
- Themes
- Kikuyu society and family life, African social structure, Life, death, work, and play
- Genres
- How Cultures Work, African Studies, East African History
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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.
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The very sight and sound of Kikuyu tribal life presented here are at once comprehensive and intimate, and as precise as they are compassionate.
Society Up Close
An anthropological study of Kikuyu life, attentive to social structures and literary texture.
Come here for
- Work, play, family, and life and death in view.
- Anthropology with an eye for literary merit.
Expect
- A portrait described as both comprehensive and intimate.
- Precise, compassionate attention to Kikuyu society.
Where it sits
| How Cultures Work | 68% |
|---|---|
| East African History | 63% |
| African Studies | 47% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- East African History
- How Cultures Work
- Global Black Studies
- Authors
- Jomo Kenyatta
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- February 12, 1962
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Kikuyu society and family life · African social structure · Life, death, work, and play
- Reading lane
- East African History