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Major Factors That Affect Livestock Marketing in Kenya: a Case Study of Maikona and North-horr Divisions, Marsabit District
(University of Nairobi, 1995-10)
The primary objectives of the study were to identify major
factors that affect livestock marketing as perceived by the
livestock traders. It also sought to rank the factors in order of
importance.
In order to achieve ...
Conflict and Conciliation Among the Mbeere of Kenya
(UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,, 1981)
Among the Mbeere, a Bantu people'of Central Kenya,
two types of conflict provide the motive force for
the performance of initiation ceremonial and oath taking
ritual. Structural conflict occurs when contradictory
social ...
The Archaeology and Ethnography of Iron Metallurgy on the Kenya Coast
(Bryn Mawr College, 1993)
This dissertation assembled and interpreted archaeological, ethnographic, and
archaeometallurgical data in an effort to reconstruct and understand the contributions of
iron working technology to the development of Swahili ...
Small Scale Industries in Rural Areas:a Study of Informal Metal Work Enterprises in Bunyore, Vihiga District
(University of Nairobi,, 2001)
This work is about the informal metal work sector, popularly known as the Jua kali sector, in rural areas. The study sought to establish the social characteristics of entrepreneurs ...
The Bukusu Customary Marriage
(University of Nairobi, 1996)
This is a study of the Bukusu marriage as practised before contact with foreign cultures. It is based mainly on oral interviews supplemented by documentary evidence of scholars who have carried out fieldwork among Babukusu, ...
Factors Influencing Utilisation of Ejournals at Daystar University
(University of Nairobi,, 2009)
The society we live in has developed from being an agricultural society, to industrial society and
now we are in the so called information age. In this age, information is the power to gain wealth.
Societies and indeed ...
Studying Social Change Through Return Visits: Return Visits:an Embu Restudy
(Univesity of Nairobi, 1994)
This paper outlines research aims and some preliminary
findings from a 1994 restudy of social change in rural Embu
District. The new project updates the author's early 1980s
field research in rural Kenya, and aims at ...
Impact of Famine Relief Food Aid on the Gabbra Pastrolists of Marsabit District. A Case Study of Maikowa Location
(University of Nairobi,, 2003)