Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity In East Africa

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Thomas Spear, Richard Waller
Ohio University Press, 1 apr 1993 - 336 pagina's

Everyone “knows” the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania.

But many people who identity themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters. Over time many different people have “become” something else. And what it means to be Maasai has changed radically over the past several centuries and is still changing today.

This collection by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and linguists examines how Maasai identity has been created, evoked, contested, and transformed from the time of their earliest settlement in Kenya to the present, as well as raising questions about the nature of ethnicity generally.

 

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Maps Figures Illustrations
Becoming Maasai Being in Time
Becoming Maasai
Dialects Sectiolects or Simply Lects?
Becoming Maasailand
Maasai Expansion and the New East African Pastoralism
Interactions and Assimilation Between
NEAL SOBANIA
Inclusion
Okiek and Maasai Perspectives
Kikuyu Settlement in Maasailand
Economic Political and Ecological
Recent Developments in Ariaal
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

Arusha Agricultural Maasai
Reflections of a Maasai Woman in Matapato

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Over de auteur (1993)

Thomas Spear received his doctorate in history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has written histories of Zwangendaba’s Ngoni, the Mijikenda (The Kaya Complex), eastern and central Kenya (Kenya’s Past), The Swahili (with Derek Nurse); and the Meru and Arusha peoples of Tanzania (Mountain Farmers). Formerly at La Trobe University and Williams College, he is professor of history emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Richard Waller is Professor Emeritus of History at Bucknell University.

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