Facing Kirinyaga : a social history of forest commons in southern Mount Kenya

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Facing Kirinyaga : a social history of forest commons in southern Mount Kenya

Alfonso Peter Castro

(IT studies in indigenous knowledge and development)

Intermediate Technology Publications, c1995

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-152)

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Description

Examines the management and use of common-property forests, groves and trees on southern Mount Kenya, demonstrating the long-standing relationships between Kenyans and their forest resources - and the connections between anthropology and forestry. This book is published in the IT Studies in Indigenous Knowledge and Development series.

Table of Contents

  • The Contested Commons
  • Kirinyaga: the ecological and historical setting
  • Indigenous forest management and agroforestry in Ndia and Gichugu
  • Conquest and concessions: the rise of British control, 1885 to 1915
  • Contested forest claims 1925 -- 1940
  • Colonial forest management: 1911 -- 1952
  • From Mau Mau to independence: southern Mount Kenya, 1952 - 1963
  • Southern Mount Kenya since independence: the first quarter century, 1963 to 1988
  • Sacred groves and social change: the decline of communal bonds
  • Njukiine and other woodland: the fate of small forests.

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