num_pages: 352
description: With an Introduction by Bronislav Malinkowski, Facing Mount Kenya is a central document of the highest distinction in anthropological literature, an invaluable key to the structure of African society and the nature of the African mind. Facing Mount Kenya is not only a formal study of life and death, work and play, sex and the family in one of the greatest tribes of contemporary Africa, but a work of considerable literary merit. The very sight and sound of Kikuyu tribal life presented here are at once comprehensive and intimate, and as precise as they are compassionate.
language: English
title: Facing Mount Kenya
titlecomplete: Facing Mount Kenya
genres: Autobiography, History, African Literature, Kenya, Africa, Biography, 20th Century, Eastern Africa, Nonfiction, Anthropology
ratings_count: 385
publisher: Vintage