Dedicated to "the dispossessed youth of Africa" with a forward by Bronislaw Malinowski, this is, FTP, what anthropological study of the Kikuyu by Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta?
This work's forward says its author "experiences the tragedy of the modern world in an especially acute manner," while its preface claims the author should be taken seriously because of his knowledge of ituika, or ritual transfer of power, as well as land law. Its functionalist argument that a people can preserve aspects of culture it finds valuable is used to defend female genital mutilation. Dedicated to "the dispossessed youth of Africa" with a forward by Bronislaw Malinowski, this is, FTP, what anthropological study of the Kikuyu by Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta?
This work's forward says its author "experiences the tragedy of the modern world in an especially acute manner," while its preface claims the author should be taken seriously because of his knowledge of ituika, or ritual transfer of power, as well as land law.
{Facing Mount Kenya}