Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa

Name: Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa
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ISBN: 9780415925839

ISBN-10: 0415925835

ISBN-13: 9780415925839

Edition: 2000

Authors: Amy Stambach

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Sambach brings together an ethnograhic study of a school and community in East Africa. Stambach focuses on the role school plays in the development of the children's identity and relationships to their parents and community, as well as in the development of the region. At issue here are the competing influences of Western modernity and the cultural traditions of East Africa-ideas about gender roles, sexuality, identity, and family and communal obligations are all at stake. Stambach looks at the controversial practice of female circumcision in the context of school and community teachings about girls' bodies and examines cultural signifiers like music, clothing and food to discuss the…

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List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/20/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Amy Stambach is Director of Global Studies and Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author ofLessons from Mount Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa(2000).



Acknowledgments



"what Educated Youth Do These Days "



Schooling, Inheritance, and Banana Groves



"should We Drink Banana Beer or Coca-Cola? "



"education is My Husband"



"boys, Preserve Your Bullets; Girls, Lock Your Boxes"



"things with Socks"



"mountains Never Meet but People Do "


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