A Complex Polity: Generations, Initiation, and Territory among the Meru of Kenya

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• The Meru crossing from Mbwaa whole source
• The Meru generation-class system whole source
• Filiation sets a man's place in the generational order whole source
• The eight-name cycle and the alternating divisions whole source
• The ntuiko, the handover of power between generations whole source
• Suspended time and the blockage of the generations whole source
• Circumcision and the making of adults whole source
• The gaaru, the warriors' house whole source
• The state of warrior and earning the generation name whole source
• Women and the generational order whole source
• The Mbwaa origin narrative whole source
• Peatrik reads Mbwaa as a charter of initiation whole source
• Fadiman's literal-migration reading and Peatrik's critique whole source
• Colonial and missionary readings of the Mbwaa story whole source
• Authority without a chief: the Fathers and the kiama whole source
• The mugwe and the blacksmith whole source
• Territory, ridges, and clans: the mwiriga whole source
• The Njuri Ncheke council of elders whole source
• The colonial intrusion and the crisis of authority whole source
• The Njuri Ncheke council of the Ameru whole source