Generational Changes in Marriage Patterns in the Central Province of Kenya, 1930-1990

Journal of Asian and African Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 157-180

  Hetherington, Penelope ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HISTORY; KENYA; LEGAL ASPECT; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

CHRISTIANITY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; KENYA; MARRIAGE; RELIGION; RELIGION AND SEX; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES; WOMEN; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

CULTURAL TRADITION; MARRIAGE; SOCIAL CHANGE; WOMENS STATUS;

KENYA;

EID: 0034979959     PISSN: 00219096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002190960103600201     Document Type: Article

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