Being Maasai : ethnicity & identity in East Africa /
"Everyone 'knows' the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania." "But many people who identify themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters. Over time many different...
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London : Dar es Salaam : Nairobi : Athens :
J. Currey ; Mkuki na Nyota ; EAEP ; Ohio University Press,
©1993.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: INTRODUCTION / Thomas Spear
- PART II: BECOMING MAASAI : Introduction
- Dialects, sectiolects, or simply lects? The Maa language in time perspective / Gabriele Sommer & Rainer Vossen
- Becoming Maasailand / J.E.G. Sutton
- Maasai expansion and the new East African pastoralism / John G. Galaty
- Aspects of 'Becoming Turkana' : interactions and assimilation between Maa- and Ateker-speakers / John Lamphear
- Defeat and dispersal: the Laikipiak and their neighbors at the end of the Nineteenth Century / Neal Sobania
- Being 'Maasai', but not 'People of Cattle': Arusha agricultural Maasai in the Nineteenth Century / Thomas Spear
- PART III: BEING MAASAI: Introduction
- Becoming Maasai, being in time / Paul Spencer
- The world of Telelia: reflections of a Maasai women in Matapato / Telelia Chieni & Paul Spencer
- 'The eye that wants a person, where can it not see?' : inclusion, exclusion, and boundary shifters in Maasai identity / John Galaty
- Aesthetics, expertise, and ethnicity: Okiek and Maasai perspectives on personal ornament / Donna Klumpp & Corinne Kratz
- PART IV: CONTESTATIONS AND REDEFINITIONS: Introduction
- Acceptees and aliens: Kikuyu settlement in Maasailand / Richard Waller
- Land as ours, land as mine: economic, political and ecological marginalization in Kajiado District / David J. Campbell
- Maa-speakers of the Northern Desert: recent developments in Ariaal and Rendille identity / Elliot Fratkin
- PART V: CONCLUSIONS / Richard Waller.