Nici Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nici Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nici |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1929 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Kiambu Group: A Successful Women's Rosca in Mathare Valley, Nairobi (1971 to 1990)
‘Women in Groups can Solve their Problems Together’
Girl Cases: Marriage and colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya 1890-1970, by Brett Shadle
This interesting piece of social history gives an unusual glimpse of twentieth-century gender relations in Kenya through the examination of marriage, bride wealth exchanges, runaway wives, abductions, and forced marriages in Gusiiland in Kenya between 1900 and 1960. In the last half of this period disputes over high bride wealth demands, runaway daughters and wives, and abducted women escalated dramatically; this caused concern amongst colonial o…
Applied anthropology at Goldsmiths
The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya
Representations of men and women, city and town in Kenyan novels of the 1970s and 1980s
Colonial Inscriptions: Race, sex and class in Kenya
Journal Article Colonial Inscriptions: Race, sex and class in Kenya Get access Colonial Inscriptions: Race, sex and class in Kenya, by Carolyn Martin. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1995. ix+ 250pp. £15.95 paperback. ISBN 0-8166-2525-5. NICI NELSON NICI NELSON Goldsmiths CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 381, October 1996, Pages 623–625, https://do…
Power and Participatory Development
The Cohesion of Oppression: Clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960
Journal Article The Cohesion of Oppression: Clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960,/ Get access The Cohesion of Oppression: Clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960,/, by Catharine Newbury. Columbia University Press, New York, 1993. xvi+322. £12.00 paperback. 0 231 06257 5. NICI NELSON NICI NELSON Goldsmiths'College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 9…
Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi. Luise White
Changing Family Life in East Africa: Women and children at risk
Journal Article Changing Family Life in East Africa: Women and children at risk Get access Changing Family Life in East Africa: Women and children at risk, by Philip Kilbride and Janet Kilbride. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park and London, 1990. xii+271pp. £28.45 hardback. ISBN 0 271 00675 5. NICI NELSON NICI NELSON Goldsmiths' College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Armenians in London: The Management of Social Boundaries
Identities on the Move: Clanship and pastoralism in Northern Kenya
Journal Article Identities on the Move: clanship and pastoralism in Northern Kenya Get access Identities on the Move: clanship and pastoralism in Northern Kenya, by Gunther Schlee. Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, London, 1989. ix+278pp. £45 hardback. ISBN 0 7190 3010 2. NICI NELSON NICI NELSON Goldsmiths' College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Afr…
African Studies Association Annual General Meeting
Journal Article African Studies Association Annual General Meeting Get access Nici Nelson Nici Nelson Honorary Secretary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 354, January 1990, Pages 111–117, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098257 Published: 01 January 1990
Transformations of African Marriage
Journal Article Transformations of African Marriage Get access David Parkin and David Nyamwaya. Transformations of African Marriage. Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, Manchester, 1987. xiv+350 pp. £35 hardback. ISBN 0 719023 254. NICI NELSON NICI NELSON Goldsmiths' College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 351, April 1…
Women and Poverty in the Third World
African Women in the Development Process
The Goba of the Zambezi: Sex Roles, Economics and Change
Mobilising village women: Some organisational and management considerations
If effective involvement of women in development projects is to take place, then concerted efforts must be made at both the policy level and at the level of organising and managing of projects to do this. This article explores some of the ways in which this could be done and some of the organisational difficulties which might arise. Using two extended case studies of Integrated Rural Development Programmes which had extensive commitments to the w…
Action and Interaction: Social Relationships in a Low-Income Housing Estate in Kitale, Kenya
Focuses upon social interaction patterns in the Housing Estate of Kitale (Kenya). The inhabitants of this low income Housing Estate are sensitive to the same kind of spatial characteristics of housing as are people living under similar conditions in other societies. Both their economic and housing circumstances impose a strain on daily life. The inhabitants react to these circumstances by developing patterns of expectations and behaviour vis-...-…
The Twenty-Third International Congress of Americanists
Colonial Inscriptions: Race, sex and class in Kenya
Journal Article Colonial Inscriptions: Race, sex and class in Kenya Get access Colonial Inscriptions: Race, sex and class in Kenya, by Carolyn Martin. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1995. ix+ 250pp. £15.95 paperback. ISBN 0-8166-2525-5. NICI NELSON NICI NELSON Goldsmiths CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 381, October 1996, Pages 623–625, https://do…
African Women in the Development Process
The Goba of the Zambezi: Sex Roles, Economics and Change
Armenians in London: The Management of Social Boundaries
Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi. Luise White
The Twenty-Third International Congress of Americanists
Action and Interaction: Social Relationships in a Low-Income Housing Estate in Kitale, Kenya
Focuses upon social interaction patterns in the Housing Estate of Kitale (Kenya). The inhabitants of this low income Housing Estate are sensitive to the same kind of spatial characteristics of housing as are people living under similar conditions in other societies. Both their economic and housing circumstances impose a strain on daily life. The inhabitants react to these circumstances by developing patterns of expectations and behaviour vis-...-…
Mobilising village women: Some organisational and management considerations
If effective involvement of women in development projects is to take place, then concerted efforts must be made at both the policy level and at the level of organising and managing of projects to do this. This article explores some of the ways in which this could be done and some of the organisational difficulties which might arise. Using two extended case studies of Integrated Rural Development Programmes which had extensive commitments to the w…
African Women in the Development Process
The Goba of the Zambezi: Sex Roles, Economics and Change
Women and Poverty in the Third World
Transformations of African Marriage
Journal Article Transformations of African Marriage Get access David Parkin and David Nyamwaya. Transformations of African Marriage. Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, Manchester, 1987. xiv+350 pp. £35 hardback. ISBN 0 719023 254. NICI NELSON NICI NELSON Goldsmiths' College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 351, April 1…
Identities on the Move: Clanship and pastoralism in Northern Kenya
Journal Article Identities on the Move: clanship and pastoralism in Northern Kenya Get access Identities on the Move: clanship and pastoralism in Northern Kenya, by Gunther Schlee. Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, London, 1989. ix+278pp. £45 hardback. ISBN 0 7190 3010 2. NICI NELSON NICI NELSON Goldsmiths' College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Afr…
African Studies Association Annual General Meeting
Journal Article African Studies Association Annual General Meeting Get access Nici Nelson Nici Nelson Honorary Secretary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 354, January 1990, Pages 111–117, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098257 Published: 01 January 1990
Changing Family Life in East Africa: Women and children at risk
Journal Article Changing Family Life in East Africa: Women and children at risk Get access Changing Family Life in East Africa: Women and children at risk, by Philip Kilbride and Janet Kilbride. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park and London, 1990. xii+271pp. £28.45 hardback. ISBN 0 271 00675 5. NICI NELSON NICI NELSON Goldsmiths' College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Armenians in London: The Management of Social Boundaries
Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi. Luise White
Power and Participatory Development
The Cohesion of Oppression: Clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960
Journal Article The Cohesion of Oppression: Clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960,/ Get access The Cohesion of Oppression: Clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960,/, by Catharine Newbury. Columbia University Press, New York, 1993. xvi+322. £12.00 paperback. 0 231 06257 5. NICI NELSON NICI NELSON Goldsmiths'College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 9…
Representations of men and women, city and town in Kenyan novels of the 1970s and 1980s
Colonial Inscriptions: Race, sex and class in Kenya
Journal Article Colonial Inscriptions: Race, sex and class in Kenya Get access Colonial Inscriptions: Race, sex and class in Kenya, by Carolyn Martin. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1995. ix+ 250pp. £15.95 paperback. ISBN 0-8166-2525-5. NICI NELSON NICI NELSON Goldsmiths CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 381, October 1996, Pages 623–625, https://do…
The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya
Applied anthropology at Goldsmiths
Girl Cases: Marriage and colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya 1890-1970, by Brett Shadle
This interesting piece of social history gives an unusual glimpse of twentieth-century gender relations in Kenya through the examination of marriage, bride wealth exchanges, runaway wives, abductions, and forced marriages in Gusiiland in Kenya between 1900 and 1960. In the last half of this period disputes over high bride wealth demands, runaway daughters and wives, and abducted women escalated dramatically; this caused concern amongst colonial o…
The Kiambu Group: A Successful Women's Rosca in Mathare Valley, Nairobi (1971 to 1990)
‘Women in Groups can Solve their Problems Together’
Political science (13 works) · History (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works)