A Complex Polity Generations, Initiation, and Territory, among The Old Meru Of Kenya

• Main Author: Peatrik, Anne-Marie (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Nairobi Africae 2020
• Series: Africae Monographs
• Subjects: Sociology & anthropology; Kenya; eastern Africa; ages of life; family; kinship; Meru; pre-colonial polity
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Weaving together ethnography and history, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the pre-colonial polity of the Meru of Kenya and its radical transformations from 1908 through the 1950s. It addresses the manifold issues of initiation and the politics of belonging, unravels the intertwined life cou...