Cartography and the political imagination : mapping community in colonial Kenya - MacArthur, Julie, 1982- (Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2016)
Mapping political communities in Africa -- The geographies of wester n Kenya -- Land, gold, and commissioning the "tribe" -- Ethnic patrioti sm in the interwar years -- Speaking Luyia: linguistic work and politic al imagination -- Mapping gender: moral crisis and the limits of cosmop olitan pluralism in the 1940s -- Between loyalism and dissent: ethnic g eographies in the era of Mau Mau -- Mapping decolonization -- Beyond th e ethnos and the nation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-327) and index.
Keywords: Luyia (African people) -- Kenya -- History; Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Kenya; Cartography -- Political aspects -- Kenya; Cartography -- Social aspects -- Kenya; Kenya -- Ethnic relations -- History