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Chapters: Culture of Kenya, Recreational Drug Use in Kenya, Harambee, Shisima, Sufuria, Gadaa, List of Flags of Kenya, Maragoli Cultural Festival, the Iron Snake, East African Garments, Mugo Kibiru, Kiondo, Obama Day, Chakacha, Wanjiku, Beer in Kenya, Giuthi, National Library Service of Kenya. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kenya has no one culture that identifies it. With such diverse regional peoples such as the Swahili along the coast, several pastoralist communities mainly in the North and the different communities in Central and Western regions, having a mutually acceptable cultural identification is difficult. There are about 42 different ethnic groupings in Kenya - each of these with its own unique culture, but majority of them with intertwining cultural practices brought about by the close resemblance in the languages, the similar environment and physical proximity of the ethnic groups. The ethnic groups are grouped into larger sub-groups - based on their cultural and linguistic similarities. There are three major unifying categories of languages: the Bantu speaking people of the Coastal region, the Central Highlands and the Western Kenya Region, The Nilotes who are mainly found in the Great Rift Valley and the Lake Victoria Region and the Cushites who are mainly composed of pastoralists and nomads in the drier North Eastern part of the country. Of note is that these sub-groups span a vast area of not just Kenya, but the East, Central and Southern African Region as a whole. The Maasai culture owes its widespread identification to the tourist industry which has exploited them for purely commercial purposes. Historical and current politics of division practiced first by the colonizers and then by subsequent community leaders has led to ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1404404 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Culture Swahilie, 2009 Au Kenya, Attentats Des Ambassades Américaines En Afrique, Afrique Orientale Britannique, Swahililand, Mau Mau, Mbarouk Ben Rashid Ben Salim Al-Mazrui. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : La culture swahilie (Uswahili en kiswahili) est la culture partagée par les peuples de la côte de l'Afrique de l'Est. Le terme viendrait du pluriel du mot arabe sahel ساحل: sawahil سواحل qui signifie côte ou frontière. Ces peuples ont des origines diverses mais présentent les mêmes caractéristiques, une population d'origine africaine bantoue avec des apports arabes et dans une moindre mesure persans. Les cités-États côtières comme Mombasa, Gede, Malindi ou les archipels de Zanzibar, des Comores, Kilwa ou de Lamu formaient une unité de culture swahilie prospère et renommée, vivant du commerce de marchandises africaines destinées aux marchés locaux et orientaux. Ces peuples parlaient donc une langue voisine, et partageaient un certain nombre de valeurs propres. C'est avant tout une culture urbaine, africaine et musulmane. A l'époque médiévale, les arabes appelaient al-Zanj (les noirs) la zone géographique des domaines territoriaux sous la domination de ces cités. Boutre traditionnel swahili à Zanzibar.Les témoignages étrangers sur la culture swahilie semblent anciens. Le Périple de la mer Érythrée, un document du siècle précise que les marchands qui visitaient à la fois l'Afrique de l'Est et le sud-est de la péninsule arabe parlaient la même langue et y contractaient des mariages. La Géographie de Claude Ptolémée, écrite vers 150, reprise et corrigée sous sa forme définitive au siècle donne également de nombreux renseignements. À cette époque, les îles étaient d'importantes pourvoyeuses d'or....http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2707 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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Although Kenya has recorded some improvements in the last four years, including an increase in productivity, Kenyan firms still face an adverse business environment. The central objective of this book is to identify the main impediments to productivity growth faced by Kenyan firms. The top constraints identified by the Kenyan managers were tax rates, access to finance, corruption, security, infrastructure services (electricity and transportation), and business licensing.Kenya has reduced the corporate tax rates in recent years. Nevertheless, objective indicators suggest that the tax burden in Kenya remains higher than in most comparator countries. Although a more detailed analysis of the tax burden in Kenya is recommended, one potential impact of a high tax regime is higher evasion, as well as the presence of a larger informal sector. Notwithstanding a favorable lending regime with low real costs of debt and a high proportion of firms with good quality information, 90 percent of microenterprises and 60 percent of small firms in Kenya declare they need loans, compared to 40 percent of medium and large firms.Although its ranking has improved over the last four years, corruption remains one of the top bottlenecks for firms in Kenya. In general, 75 percent of firms in Kenya reported having to make informal payments to get things done with rules and regulations. Corruption costs Kenyan firms approximately 4 percent of annual sales.Finally in 2007 approximately one-third of Kenyan managers rated crime as a major constraint and close to 80 percent of firms in Kenya experience losses because of power interruptions. As a consequence, almost 70 percent of firms have generators, which are costly to obtain and operate. Similarly, Kenyan companies lose 2.6 percent of their sales because of spoilage and theft during transportation. ... Read more

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Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism, the Europeans' image of Africans, Africans' changing self representation, and the impact of global trade on cultural artifacts and the making of art. This intriguing history of the interaction between peoples, aesthetics, morals, artistic objects and practices, and the global trade in African art challenges current ideas about artistic production and representation.

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This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social and material life. He shows that if Samburu reaction to the new foods is primarily negative--they are referred to disparagingly as "gray food" and "government food"--it is also deeply ambivalent. For example, the Samburu attribute a host of social maladies to these dietary changes, including selfishness and moral decay. Yet because the new foods save lives during famines, the same individuals also talk of the triumph of reason over an antiquated culture and speak enthusiastically of a better life where there is less struggle to find food. Through detailed analysis of a range of food-centered arenas, Uncertain Tastes argues that the experience of food itself--symbolic, sensuous, social, and material-is intrinsically characterized by multiple and frequently conflicting layers. ... Read more

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Describes and documents various indigenous house forms in the southern Sudan and northern Kenya area in order to gain insights into the lives of the people who build them. Formulates reasons as to why people build their houses in the ways they do.

Table of Contents

List of photos
List of figures
Preface
Introduction

Part I - Western Sudan

1. Managayat
2. Zande
3. Shatt
4. Bongo

Part II - Central Sudan

1. Dinka

Part III - Eastern Sudan

1. Murle
2. Didinga
3. Toposa
4. Lotuko
5. Longarim
6. Ik

Part IV - Northern Kenya

1. Turkana
2. Shangilla
3. El Molo
4. Samburu
5. Rendille

Conclusion

Appendix: Communications cited
Bibliography:
   References cited
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Material culture - the objects made by man - provides the primary data from which archaeologists have to infer the economies, technologies, social organization and ritual practices of extinct societies. The analysis and interpretation ofmaterial culture is therefore central to any concern with archaeological theory and methodology, and in order to understand better the relationship between material culture and human behaviour, archaeologists need to draw upon models derived from the study of ethnographic societies. First published in 1982, this book presents the results of a series of field investigations carried out in Kenya, Zambia and the Sudan into the 'archaeological' remains and material culture of contemporary small-scale societies, and demonstrates the way in which objects are used as symbols within social action and within particular world views and ideologies. ... Read more

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This work presents an examination of the structure and development of an established successful co-operative in Kenya. The author analyzes the relationship between the co-operative and the surrounding community. This book will appeal to those working on development at a practical or a theoretical level, social anthropologists, and scholars and students of the co-operative movement. ... Read more