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Journal articles on the topic "Maragoli (Kenya)"

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Muhandale, Alex Amisi. "RESOURCE STRUGGLE, RESULTANT REALITIES AND THE FUTURE OF MARAGOLI LAND USE." Journal of Agricultural Policy 3, no. 2 (April 21, 2020): 45–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.47941/jap.396.

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Land has remained one of the most basic and valuable economic resource right from the pre-colonial to the post independent Kenyan society. The success or failure of every society is always pegged on how prudent the society manages the resources within its reach in the midst of changes, challenges and opportunities that time and space avails every single moment. Being part of the Kenyan society, the Maragoli community has never been left out of the land question that has troubled Kenya over time. The pre-colonial Maragoli society had a land tenure system which was characterized by communal control of land together with its resources and practiced individual land ownership. Though land was communally owned at the general level, it was individually owned and tilled at the family level. The basis of land administration was the customary law executed by the elders who had the overall powers over the production resource. Through colonial policies such as alienation of the Africans’ land, confiscation of livestock, introduction of taxes and the cash economy; all these mechanisms brought about disequilibrium in the Maragoli pre-colonial land use. With this in mind therefore, this paper examined the nature and realities in resource struggle and the future of such struggles especially in regard to land use in the post-independence Kenya, using the case of the Maragoli. Through the articulation theory, this paper demonstrates that the interaction between the pre-colonial Maragoli land use practices and the colonial land policies greatly impacted on the Maragoli socio-economic and political structures. Due to the cash crop economy, the traditional Maragoli communal attitudes towards land as a resource are fading out resulting into individual emphasis on land use. This individual emphasis on land use is the major cause of uneconomical subdivision of land, insecurity and increased poverty. It is from the above perspective that the paper analyses the post-independence Maragoli land situation, some of the key causes of uneconomical subdivision of land and the possible solutions.
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McConnell, David, Jan den Bakker, Samuel Kidini, and Joyce Bunyoli. "Participatory Development in Maragoli, Kenya: Reflections on Practicing Anthropology." Practicing Anthropology 36, no. 3 (July 1, 2014): 11–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.36.3.b54288231315l730.

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Over the past two decades, participatory development programs that emphasize local control and decision-making have become more common around the globe. Such initiatives respond to the thought-provoking critiques of the discourse and practice of "development" that have emerged since the 1990s. Critics have argued, for example, that the development industry promotes a paternalistic attitude that sees Western standards as the benchmark against which to measure the "Third World" (Escobar 1995), privileges donor priorities over local needs, and uses aid to grow government and NGO bureaucracies rather than directly assisting community members (Ferguson 2006). It sees recipients of aid as an undifferentiated mass of underdeveloped subsistence farmers (Lewellen 2002). Participatory development programs are one response to the need for a new paradigm in community development that empowers locals while avoiding the pitfalls of "philanthropic colonialism."
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Abwunza, Judith. ""Silika — To Make Our Lives Shine": Women's Groups in Maragoli, Kenya." Anthropologica 37, no. 1 (1995): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25605789.

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MUTONGI, KENDA. "‘WORRIES OF THE HEART’: WIDOWED MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS AND MASCULINITIES IN MARAGOLI, WESTERN KENYA, 1940–60." Journal of African History 40, no. 1 (March 1999): 67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853798007373.

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Omwene hango [the owner of the home] is the only person with true authority to discipline children. So, when your husband died, the authority of omwene hango died with him, and you were left alone.HISTORIANS of gender have shown the importance of documenting and scrutinizing instances in which gender terminologies are invoked and employed. A compelling instance can be found in an examination of the widows of Maragoli. In this upland rural area of about two hundred square kilometers in western Kenya, the dynamic relations surrounding widowhood provide a useful opportunity to analyze the construction of feminine and masculine categories, as well as the political strategies that emerged out of these categories. Widows in this rural part of Kenya were certainly subject to the limitations imposed on them by the invocation of strict gender categorization – perhaps at this point in their lives more than any other. And yet, surprisingly, these widows were able to use such categories for their own purposes. By expressing their grief publicly – usually in ways that focused on their social and economic needs – Maragoli widows not only reinforced the importance of gender categories but also sought to redress their grievances through these very categories. What is important, though, is that they consciously presented themselves as ‘poor widows’, as idealized stereotypes of suffering females who were believed to become needy and helpless at the death of their husbands. They told their stories in ways calculated to solicit sympathy. And this usually worked to their advantage since it placed men in the difficult situation of having to defend their ‘ideal’ masculinity. Only by helping guarantee the economic livelihood and social status of bereaved widows could men uphold their own self-image. Thus the relationship between them was informed by a reciprocity that suggests that the widows were more than passive recipients of male charity. By presenting their grief publicly so as to solicit relief for their sufferings, widows were actively able to turn what men saw as stereotypical feminine behaviour – emotionality, helplessness and weakness – into strengths. That is, by consciously attempting to make men feel more ‘manly’, Maragoli widows were able – at least partially – to exploit existing gender roles to get what they needed.
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"Widow Inheritance among the Maragoli of Western Kenya." Journal of Anthropological Research 54, no. 2 (July 1998): 173–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/jar.54.2.3631729.

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"Book Reviews." Journal of Economic Literature 53, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 379–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jel.53.2.360.r12.

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Jeffrey V. Butler of EIEF and University of Nevada, Las Vegas reviews “Experimenting with Social Norms: Fairness and Punishment in Cross-Cultural Perspective”, by Jean Ensminger and Joseph Henrich. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Seventeen papers, plus thirteen case studies available for download only, explore the historical emergence of prosocial norms and their relationship to economic growth. Papers in the text discuss theoretical foundations─the coevolution of social norms, intrinsic motivation, markets, and the institutions of complex societies; cross-cultural methods, sites, and variables; major empirical results─markets, religion, community size, and the evolution of fairness and punishment; and double-blind dictator games in Africa and the United States─differential experimenter effects. Case studies available for download discuss Hadza behavior in three experimental economic games; the effects of sanctions and third-party enforcers on generosity in Papua New Guinea; an experimental investigation of dictators, ultimatums, and punishment; behavioral experiments in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji; economic game behavior among the Shuar; economic experimental game results from the Sursurunga of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea; Maragoli and Gusii farmers in Kenya─strong collective action and high prosocial punishment; sharing, subsistence, and social norms in Northern Siberia; the influence of property rights and institutions for third-party sanctioning on behavior in three experimental economic games; cooperation and punishment in an economically diverse community in highland Tanzania; social preferences among the people of Sanquianga in Colombia; the effects of birthplace and current context on other-regarding preferences in Accra; and prosociality in rural America─evidence from dictator, ultimatum, public goods, and trust games.” Ensminger is Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. Henrich is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution in the Economics and Psychology Departments at the University of British Columbia.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Maragoli (Kenya)"

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Fulfrost, Brian 1969. "Four hectares and a hoe: Maragoli smallholders and land tenure law in Kenya." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278467.

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The paper outlines the historical development of Kenyan land tenure reform in relation to a group of smallholders in Maragoli. The transformation of common property into private property has not completely destroyed the authority of local institutions in matters of land tenure and land use. Customary social obligations have continued to play a role in the decision-making process of smallholders in Maragoli. The government in Kenya continues to be uninformed by the socioeconomic realities that affect smallholders. Agrarian law and administration should be built on the kinds of agricultural systems that are being practiced by the majority of the population in Kenya.
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Verma, Ritu. "Walking where men walk, the gendered politics of land, labour and soils in Maragoli, western Kenya." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ48416.pdf.

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Verma, Ritu Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. ""Walking where men walk"; the gendered politics of land, labour and soils in Maragoli, Western Kenya." Ottawa, 1999.

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Kabaji, Egara Stanley. "The construction of gender through the narrative process of the African folktale: a case study of the Maragoli folktale." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1798.

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The purpose of the study was to identify the gender-related themes from a cultural discourse in order to determine how gender is constructed in African society. The study specifically examines the Maragoli Folktale. The Maragoli people mainly inhabit the western part of Kenya and are a sub-tribe of the larger Luhyia community. The Luhyia community is the second largest community in Kenya. The study attempts to uncover how gender is constructed through the examination of dominant themes, characterization, images, symbols, formulaic patterns and formalities of composition and performance in the Maragoli folktales at the time of performance. Based on an eclectic conceptual framework, the study takes into consideration gender theories, feminist literary perspectives, psychoanalysis and discourse analysis paradigms to critically examine the tales as a semiotic system of signification grounded within an African social cultural milieu. The folktales are analysed as a symbolic and ideological discourse of signs encoded by the performer and decoded by the audience at the time of performance. The study therefore situates the tale firmly at the time of performance, taking into consideration the interaction between the performer and the audience in the dissemination and internalization of gender ideology. While establishing that patriarchal structures and values are transmitted through the tales, the study also reveals the methods and interventions that the mainly female performers advance as active agents in their struggle for space within the culture. Women are, therefore, perceived as active agents of change and the folktale as a site from which gender ideology is discussed, contested and subverted. The study is based on a corpus of twenty (20) folktales collected from the Maragoli country in Western Province of Kenya (See maps, Appendix B.) The English versions of the tales appear in appendix A.
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Books on the topic "Maragoli (Kenya)"

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Mutongi, Kenda Beatrice. Generations of grief and grievances: A history of widows and widowhood in Maragoli, Western Kenya, 1900 to the present. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1996.

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Mutoro, Basilida Anyona. Women working wonders: Small-scale farming and the role of women in Vihiga District, Kenya : a case study of North Maragoli. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Thela Publishers Amsterdam, 1997.

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Book chapters on the topic "Maragoli (Kenya)"

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Moogi Gwako, Edwins Laban. "Exploring the Interactions: Plot-Level Analysis of Maragoli Women Farmers’ Crop Control and Yields in Western Kenya." In The Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation: Anthropological Explorations, 285–314. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/s0190-128120160000036011.

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"The Truth on Common Poverty and Uncommon Wealth in Rural Kenya: Stanley Gazemba’s The Stone Hills of Maragoli." In Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction, 113–23. Brill | Rodopi, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004359581_008.

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Gwako, Edwins Laban Moogi. "Cultural Economics and Ramifications of Home-Brewing, Selling and Consumption of Alcohol among the Maragoli of Western Kenya." In Anthropological Considerations of Production, Exchange, Vending and Tourism, 3–32. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/s0190-128120170000037002.

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