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

Amy Stambach Amy Stambach

ISBN 10: 0415925827 / ISBN 13: 9780415925822

Published by Routledge, 2000

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1st edition. 206 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415925827
• ISBN 13: 9780415925822
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.56 kilograms

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Synopsis

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 tensions in the region.

About the Author

AMY STAMBACH