Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Law, Business Mgt (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Child friendly urban spaces sustainable integration of the children in the planning and designing of low income urban residential neighborhoods, a comparative study of Kaloleni, Buru Buru Phase I and Kayole Phase I in Eastland's, Nairobi
(School of Business, 2006)Urban residential neighborhoods are the primary environment for children during their critical early period when they are most vulnerable and developing rapidly Residential areas are supposed to be safe, secure and healthy ... -
Ritual Change Among the Nandi: a Study of Change in Life - Crisis Rituals1923-1973
(University of NairobiFaculty of Arts, 1976-06)1. I note-the change, resulting in conflict between traditional and modern, which I observed when working among the Nandi from 1966-8. 2. The Nandi subdivision of the Kalenjin are a Paranilotic people who have lived in ... -
The Bukusu Customary Marriage
(University of NairobiDepartment of Anthropology, 1996)This is a study of the Bukusu marriage as practised before contact with foreign cultures. It is based mainly on oral interviews supplemented by documentary evidence of scholars who have carried out fieldwork among Babukusu, ... -
Changing roles of the Gikuyu women and their implications for the family
(University of NairobiDepartment of Human Anatomy, 2002)This is a study on the changing roles of the Gikuyu women and their implications for the family. The study subjects were women from Rwaka sublocation, ofKiambu district. They included: small and large scale farmers, house ... -
The Use and Management of Open Spaces in Low Income Residential Neighbourhoods in Nairobi
(University of NairobiSchool of Business, 1990)Provision of open spaces in Kenya's urban areas especially in Nairobi has tended to be a matter of standards provided in Town Planning guidelines. There is very little response to changes in people's socioeconomic and ... -
The Kabras customary marriage
(University of NairobiInstitute of African Studies, 1993)Since different communities organize their marriages in varying ways, there is need to study and analyse every community's system. Therefore, the main theme of this thesis is the Kabras customary ... -
Bone Harpoons From Selected Sites in the Lake Turkana Basin
(University of NairobiDepartment of History ( Achaeology Option), 1991)This work concern barbed bone harpoons from four Holocene fishing settlement sites in the Lake Turkana Basin. The harpoons are a component of the assemblages recovered by excavation. The study has ... -
Curation of ethnographic collections at the Nairobi Museum, Kenya.
(Institute Of Anthropology, Gender And African Studies, University of Nairobi, 2005)This study was carried out at the National Museums of Kenya Nairobi and aimed at investigating the reasons why the Nairobi museum Ethnographic collections are not properly stored, documented, preserved and conserved. The ... -
Passing Like Flowers: the Marriage Regulations of the Tugen of Kenya and Their Implications for a Theory of Crow-omaha
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Institute Of Anthropology, Gender And African Studies, University of Nairobi, 1975)The dissertation presents an alliance model of Crow-Omaha marriage-system constraints based on the ethnographic description of the marriage and kinship relations of the Tugen of Kenya. Both Crow-Omaha and asymmetrical ... -
Tharaka Age-organization and the Theory of Age-set Systems
(Universi ty of Illinois at UrbanaInstitute Of Anthropology, Gender And African Studies, University of Nairobi, 1973) -
Pest Infestation and Conservation of Ethnographic Collections With Specific Reference to Skin and Wooden Materials: a Case Study of Village Museum, Dar Es Salaam
(University of NairobiInstitute Of Anthropology, Gender And African Studies, University of Nairobi, 2003)The purpose of the study was to investigate why and how skin and wooden ethnographic artifacts are infested and what was being done to combat the problem. Hence, the study aimed at identifying insect pests, which damage ... -
Gender and property among sedentarized pastoralists of Northern Kenya
(McGill University, MontrealDepartment of Anthropology, 2007)In the context of growing poverty and sedentarization, the socio-economic status of pastoral women is an important indicator of how pastoralists in northern Kenya respond to social change. Accordingly, this study examines ... -
The Archaeology and Ethnography of Iron Metallurgy on the Kenya Coast
(Bryn Mawr CollegeInstitute Of Anthropology, Gender And African Studies, University of Nairobi, 1993)This dissertation assembled and interpreted archaeological, ethnographic, and archaeometallurgical data in an effort to reconstruct and understand the contributions of iron working technology to the development of Swahili ... -
Conflict and Conciliation Among the Mbeere of Kenya
(UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,Institute Of Anthropology, Gender And African Studies, University of Nairobi, 1981)Among the Mbeere, a Bantu people'of Central Kenya, two types of conflict provide the motive force for the performance of initiation ceremonial and oath taking ritual. Structural conflict occurs when contradictory social ... -
The Rendille Age-set System in Ethnographic Context: Adaptation and Integration in a Nomadic Society
(University of Nairobi,Institute Of Anthropology, Gender And African Studies, University of Nairobi, 1981)The dual purpose of this work is to present a detailed ethnography of the Rendille people, a nomadic society of northern Kenya with a camel-based pastoral economy and an East Cushitic language, and to describe and analyze ... -
The Socio-economic and Ritual Roles of Pokot Women
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Kikuyu Kinship Interaction: a Rural-urban Comparison
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The Role of Climatic Factors in the Deterioration of Immovable Cultural Heritage: a Case Study of Tanga Coastal Region
(University of Nairobi,, 2003)The purpose of this study was to investigate how climatic condition leads to the deterioration of immovable cultural heritage along the coast of Tanga. Therefore, study aimed at finding out whether climate was the factor ... -
Attitudes of Local Visitors Towards Museum Exhibitions
(University of NairobiInstitute Of Anthropology, Gender And African Studies, University of Nairobi, 2003)The knowledge that permanent exhibitions do not change often prompted this study. Permanent exhibitions can last even for thirty years while temporary exhibitions are expected to last for between a day to six months. ... -
Challenges facing the management and conservation of Olduvai Gorge / palaeo anthropological site, Tanzania
(Institute Of Anthropology, Gender And African Studies, University of Nairobi, 2005)This study focused on determining the management and conservation challenges facing Olduvai Gorge palaeoanthropological site. The basic question to be answered was, "What conservation problems arise from user conflicts ...
