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Negotiating difference: The Church Missionary Society, colonial education, and gender among Abetaaluyia and Joluo communities of Kenya, 1900--1960.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Negotiating difference: The Church Missionary Society, colonial education, and gender among Abetaaluyia and Joluo communities of Kenya, 1900--1960./
Author:	Ochwada, Hannington.
Description:	384 p.
Notes:	Adviser: John H. Hanson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-02A.
Subject:	Education, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3297112
ISBN:	9780549442721

Negotiating difference: The Church Missionary Society, colonial education, and gender among Abetaaluyia and Joluo communities of Kenya, 1900--1960.
Ochwada, Hannington.

Negotiating difference: The Church Missionary Society, colonial education, and gender among Abetaaluyia and Joluo communities of Kenya, 1900--1960. - 384 p.

Adviser: John H. Hanson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2007.

"Negotiating Difference: The Church Missionary Society, Colonial Education, and Gender among Abetaaluyia and Joluo Communities of Kenya, 1900-60," is a historical analysis of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), British colonial education systems and their impact on social relations of Abetaaluyia and Joluo communities in western Kenya. In probing the gendered dimensions of British colonialism in Kenya, I seek to demonstrate how British colonialists and CMS evangelists sought to popularize the Enlightenment-Victorian ideas of civility as crucial organizing elements of the colonial experience. Anglican evangelists and British colonial administrators attempted to reconstitute gender spaces in western Kenya within the prevailing gendered Victorian model of domesticity and sexuality. In the Victorian model of domestic life the male was head of the family and the female was the homemaker. Consequently, in their efforts to introduce Victorian ideas, they attempted to capture and control Abetaaluyia and Joluo family units as a viable avenue through which they would implement their policies and institute change in the local communities. However, the actual conditions demanded that they come to terms with the cultural realities of the people they met and with whom they were compelled to negotiate and accommodate differences for co-existence. For instance, in order for Europeans to govern the people they described as "Kavirondo" (Abetaaluyia and Joluo), they had to adopt the local system of administration and elements of indigenous belief systems in exchange for usable cultural goods from Western societies, such as literary education, forms of attire, and medicine. The study underscores the fact that the colonial world was remade by both the colonizer and the colonized. I draw on data in the archives of the CMS (deposited at the Special Collections at University of Birmingham, United Kingdom), the Kenya National Archives in Kenya, and oral interviews collected from Kenyans with knowledge of the colonial experience. I also engage existing studies of British colonial rule in Kenya and other countries across the globe.

ISBN: 9780549442721Subjects--Topical Terms:

599244
Education, History of.

Negotiating difference: The Church Missionary Society, colonial education, and gender among Abetaaluyia and Joluo communities of Kenya, 1900--1960.
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