Preferred Citation: Fadiman, Jeffrey A. When We Began, There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1993 1993. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8199p24c/


 

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Adamson, G. Bwana Game: The Life Story of George Adamson . London: Collins Press, 1968. (Published in the United States as A Lifetime with Lions . New York: McFadden Books, 1968.)

Adamson, J. The Peoples of Kenya . London: Collins Press, 1967.

Arkell-Hardwick, A. An Ivory Trader in North Kenia . London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1903.

Benson, T. G., ed. Kikuyu-English Dictionary . Oxford Press, 1964.

Bernard, F. E. East of Mt. Kenya: Meru Agriculture in Transition . Munich: Weltforum Verlag, 1972.

———. Recent Agricultural Change East of Mt. Kenya . Africa Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1973.

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Bernardi, B. The Mugwe: A Failing Prophet . London: Oxford Press, 1959.

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Dundas, C. "The History of Kitui." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 43 (1913): 480ff.

Dutton, E. A. T. Kenya Mountain . London: Jonathan Cape, 1929.


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Fadiman, J. A. "Early History of the Meru of Mt. Kenya." Journal of African History 14, no. 1 (1973): 9–27.

———. Mountain Warriors: The Pre-Colonial Meru of Mt. Kenya . Africa Series, no. 29. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1975.

———. "The Meru Peoples." In Kenya before 1900: Eight Regional Studies , ed. B. A. Ogot, 153–73. Nairobi: East Africa Publishing House, 1976.

———. "Mountain Witchcraft: Supernatural Practices and Practitioners among the Meru of Mt. Kenya." African Studies Review 20, no. 1 (April 1977): 87–101.

———. The Moment of Conquest: Meru, Kenya, 1907 . Africa Series, no. 36. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1979.

———. An Oral History of Tribal Warfare: The Meru of Mt. Kenya . Athens: Ohio University Press, 1982.

First, R. Power in Africa: Political Power and the Coup d'Etat . Penguin: New York, 1971.

Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P. "The Coast, 1498–1840." In History of East Africa , eds. R. Oliver and G. Mathew, vol. 1, 128–68. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.

Gedge, E. "A Recent Exploration under Captain E G. Dundas, R.N., up the River Tana to Mt. Kenya." Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 14 (1892): 513–33.

Giorgis, B. A Tentative Kimeru Dictionary . Meru, Kenya: Catholic Bookshop (Consolata Mission Society), 1964.

Gurney, H. L. G. "The Mwimbi." In Kenya Mountain , E. A. T. Dutton, appendix 6, 203–7. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929.

Henderson, L., and P. Goodheart. The Hunt for Kimathi . London: Pan Books, 1958.

Hobley, C. W. Ethnology of the A-Kamba and Other East African Tribes . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910.

Holding, E. M. "Some Preliminary Notes on Meru Age Grades." Man 42 (1942): 58–65.

Hopkins, A. J. Trail Blazers and Road Makers: A Brief History of the East African Mission of the United Methodist Church . London: Henry Hooks United Methodist Publishing House, 1928.

Huxley, E. White Man's Country: Lord Delamere and the Making of Kenya . Vol. 1, 1870–1914 . London: Chatto and Windus, 1953.

———. Red Strangers . London: Chatto and Windus, 1964.

———. A New Earth: An Experiment in Colonialism . London: Chatto and Windus, 1969.

Jacobs, A. H. "The Chronology of the Pastoral Maasai." Hadithi , vol. 1. University of Nairobi, Department of History, 1968.

———. "Maasai Pastoralism in Historical Perspective." In Pastoralism in Tropical Africa , ed. T. Monod. London: International African Institute, 1975.

———. "Maasai Inter-Tribal Relations: Belligerent Herdsmen or Peaceful Pastoralists?" In Warfare among East African Herders , eds. K. Fukui and D. Turton, Senri Ethnological Studies, no. 3. Senri, Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 1979.


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Kenyatta, Jomo. Facing Mt. Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu . London: Secker and Warburg, 1938.

Kolb, G. "Vom Mombasa Durch Ukambani Zum Kenia." Petermanns Mitteilungen 42 (1896): 221–31.

Lambert, Hugo E. History of the Tribal Occupation of the Land . Part 1 of The Systems of Land Tenure in the Kikuyu Land Unit . Communication of the School of African Studies, no. 22. Cape Town: Cape Town University, 1950.

———. The Use of Indigenous Authorities in Tribal Administration: Studies of the Meru in Kenya Colony . Communication of the School of African Studies, no. 16. Cape Town: Cape Town University, 1947.

———. Kikuyu Social and Political Institutions . London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1956.

Laughton, W. H. "A Meru Text." Man 64, no. 9 (1964): 17–18.

———. The Meru . Peoples of Kenya Series, no. 10. Nairobi: Ndia Kuu Press, 1944.

Leakey, L. S. B. The Stone Age Cultures of Kenya Colony . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1931.

Maguire, R. A. J. " 'El-Torobo,' Tanganyika Notes and Records." The Journal of the Tanganyika Society (1948): 8–13.

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Mathew, G. "The East African Coast until the Coming of the Portuguese." In History of East Africa , eds. R. Oliver and G. Mathew, 34–129. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.

Middleton, J., and G. Kershaw. The Central Tribes of the Northeastern Bantu . Part 5 of Ethnographic Survey of Africa: East Central Africa , ed. D. Ford. London: International African Institute, 1965.

Moyse-Bartlett, H. The King's African Rifles: A Study of the Military History of East and Central Africa . Aldershot, U.K.: Gale and Polden, 1956.

Mungeam, G. H. British Rule in Kenya, 1895–1912: The Establishment of Administration in the East African Protectorate . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.

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Muriuki, G. "Kikuyu Reaction to Traders and British Administration, 1850–1904." Haditbi , vol. 1, 101. University of Nairobi, Department of History, 1968.

———. A History of the Kikuyu, 1500–1900 , London: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Mwaniki, H. S. K. The Living History of Embu and Mbeere . Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1973.

Needham, R. "The Left Hand of the Mugwe: An Analytical Note on the Structure of Meru Symbolism." Africa 30, no. 1 (1960): 20–33.

Neumann, A. H. Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa . London: Rowland Ward, 1898.


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Ogot, B. A., and J. A. Kiernan. Zamani: A Survey of East African History . Nairobi: East African Publishing House; Longmans, Green; London, 1968.

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———, ed. Kenya before 1900: Eight Regional Studies . Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1976.

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———. "Circumcision Ceremonies among the Amwimbe." Man 13, no. 79 (1913): 137–40.

———. "The Circumcision Ceremony in Chuka." Man 15, no. 5 (1915): 65–68.

———. "Mount Kenya and Its People: Some Notes on the Chuka Tribe." Journal of the African Society 15 (1916): 225–33.

———. "The Southeast Face of Mt. Kenya." Geographical Journal 51 (1918): 389–92.

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Piggot, J. R. W. "Journey to the Upper Tana." Proceedings of the Royal Geographic Society 12 (1890): 129–36.

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Routledge, W. S. With a Prehistoric People: The Akikuyu of British East Africa . London: E. Arnold, 1910.

Russell, E. W., ed. Natural Resources of East Africa . Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1962.

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Tate, H. R. "Journey to the Rendile Country, British East Africa." Geographical Journal 23 (1904): 220–28.

Taylor, R. D. F. "The Gumba and Gumba Pits of Fort Hall District, Kenya." Azania 1 (1966): 111.

Thompson, J. Through Masailand: A Journey of Exploration among the Snowclad Volcano Mountains and Strange Tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa . Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1885.

Tignor, R. L. The Colonial Transformation of Kenya: The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from 1900–1934 . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976.

Vansina, J. Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology . Trans. H. M. Wright. Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1965.


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Wisner, B., and P. O'Keefe. Land Use and Development . London: International African Institute, 1977.


 

Preferred Citation: Fadiman, Jeffrey A. When We Began, There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1993 1993. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8199p24c/