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Abba Gada
African District Council
African ethnography
Age Class System
Age Set System
Author_B. Bernardi
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Chief Medicine Man
Christian Oath
colonial impact Kenya
cultural anthropology Africa
Cultural Heroes
Dual Division
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Exodus Narration
Failing Prophet
Fictio Juris
Genealogical Descent
Hereditary Principle
indigenous religious authority
Intimate Connection
Kenya
Kitui District
Meru
Meru District
Meru Language
Meru social structure
Mugwe
Polygynous Homestead
Present Tribal Unity
ritual leadership
social system
Successive Age Classes
Tana River
traditional Meru society transformation
Tribal Symbols
Young Initiates
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138489189
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 1959 this volume studies the ritual office of the Mugwe which was of great social significance among the Meru of the Central Province of Kenya and analyses the social changes and decline of the Mugwe which came about in the second half of the twentieth century. Until this book was published there was no published literature on the Mugwe - one of the most basic and firmly established elements of the old structure of Meru social life.
B. Bernardi
