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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- Introduction -- I. The Kikuyu -- Tribal and Sub-Tribal Groupings and Demography -- Nomenclature and location -- Demographic data -- Neighbouring peoples -- Traditions of origin and history -- Modern developments -- Language -- Physical Environment -- Main Features of Economy -- Agriculture, livestock and diet -- Trade -- Forms of economic organization -- Distribution of labour -- Crafts -- Arts, music, dances and games -- Kikuyu Social and Political Institutions -- The mihiriga -- The mbari -- Settlement pattern and homestead -- Kikuyu territorial system -- Kikuyu age-grades or status-grades -- The Kikuyu age-sets and the generation-set system -- Kinship system -- Political organization of the Northern tribes -- Law and legal procedure -- Inheritance and succession -- Kikuyu land tenure -- Land tenure among the Northern tribes -- Slavery -- Main Cultural Features -- Physical and mental characteristics -- Dress -- Life cycle -- birth -- second birth -- initiation -- betrothal and marriage -- death and burial -- Traditional religious beliefs and ritual -- Modern religious movements -- Kikuyu "guilds" -- Magic and sorcery -- Myths and cosmology -- II. The Kamba -- Tribal and Sub-tribal Groupings -- Nomenclature and location -- Neighbouring peoples -- Demography -- Traditions of origin and history -- Language -- Physical Environment -- Main Features of Economy -- Agriculture, livestock and diet -- Trade -- Crafts -- Music and dances -- Games -- Distribution of labour -- Social Organization and Political System -- Kinship system -- Fictional kinship -- Clan system -- Territorial system -- Age-grade system -- Legal procedure and local government -- Legal code -- Land tenure -- Inheritance and succession -- Main Cultural Features -- Dress

Fast track route to understanding what makes organizations tick Covers the key areas of achieving organisational effectiveness, from building core skill sets and mastering the impact of technology and globalization, to aligning culture with direction and developing new organizational models and structures Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Dell, Nissan, Semco and St Luke's, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Charles Handy, Elliott Jaques, Arie de Geus and Ricardo Semler. Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resour

Fast track route to mastering culture and culture change Covers the key areas of culture, from how culture evolves and why different companies have different cultures to cultural diagnosis and implementing successful change Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Amazon.com, EDS, Honda and Nissan, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Edgar Schein, Charles Handy, Geert Hofstede and Gareth Morgan. Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

Fast track route to understanding and managing human behaviour in organizations Covers the key areas of OB, from understanding individual and group behaviour patterns and attitudes to work to building successful organizations and improving your personal effectiveness in the workplace Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Tesco, Sears, Sundaram-Clayton and The Natural Step, and ideas from the smartest thinkers including Charles Handy, Jack Wood, Edgar Schein and Shoshana Zuboff Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

"The Swahili of East Africa have a long and distinctive history as a literate, Muslim, urban, and mercantile society. In this book a leading Africanist presents the first full-length anthropological account of the Swahili and offers an original analysis of their little-understood and unusual culture." "Swahili towns, some urban with elegant stone buildings and others more rural with palm-leaf-matting houses, are spread along the thousand-mile East African coast. Because each local community is culturally different from its neighbors, previous historians and anthropologists have viewed the Swahili as a series of isolated and "detribalized" groups. John Middleton argues, on the contrary, that beneath the cultural variation is a single structure, that of a well-defined and complex trading society that has shown little change through the ages. Drawing on his own field research and on earlier writings on the Swahili, Middleton describes this centuries-old mercantile culture--its local and descent groupings, marriage patterns, religion, and values. He traces the history of their colonized past as subjects to Arabs, portuguese, British, and others and shows that, although their economic and political role has continually been a subordinate one, their sense of unique identity enables then to persist as an ongoing civilization."--Jacket