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Mau Mau oath? How did new relationships to crime, women, and purification
modernize the Mau Mau oath? How does this study of the oath help better
understand the Mau Mau war? Was the Mau Mau oath haphazard, irrational, and
barbaric? And finally, why has it been so difficult to move past this impression of
the oath?

Dissertation Organization & Overview

In order to understand the complexity of the Mau Mau oath, this
dissertation is divided into six main chapters. The first three chapters provide the
detailed context and background on oathing by showing how oathing has been
treated to date and by providing an approach to understanding oathing. The
remaining chapters focus on selected oathing relationships created during Mau
Mau which includes new ties with crime, gender, and purification. The following
paragraphs provide an overview of the chapters, including the argument,
intervention, approach, and the application of sources.

Chapter two traces the various Mau Mau oath perspectives over time. The
chapter argues that although the oath has been a part of the Mau Mau
conversation from the beginning of the emergency, scholars have not examined
the complexity of the Mau Mau oath. The historiography shows that the oath has
been forced into unnecessary and narrow categories. In some cases scholars
have shaped the Mau Mau oath narrative to often fit into their specific arguments
without considering the oath framework, structure, and meaning on its own

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