Description
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. The very sight and sound of Kikuyu tribal life presented here are at once comprehensive and intimate, and as precise as they are compassionate.
Author: Jomo Kenyatta
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/12/1962
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.30h x 4.48w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9780394702100
ISBN10: 0394702107
BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa | General
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- Social Science | Sociology | General
Author: Jomo Kenyatta
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/12/1962
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.30h x 4.48w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9780394702100
ISBN10: 0394702107
BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa | General
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- Social Science | Sociology | General
About the Author
Jomo Kenyatta, the grandson of a Kikuyu medicine man, was among the foremost leaders of African nationalism. In the 1930s he studied at the London School of Economics and took his degree in anthropology under Bronislav Malinowski.