Being Maasai : ethnicity & identity in East Africa /: ethnicity & identity in East Africa. (1993)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Thomas Spear & Richard Waller.
• Other Names: Spear, Thomas T; Waller, Richard (Richard D.); African Studies Association., Annual Meeting, (1989) (Atlanta, Ga.)
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : James Currey
• Publication Date: 1993
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 967.6; 306.089965; Maasai (African people) -- Ethnic identity -- Congresses; Maasai (African people) -- Social life and customs -- Congresses; Ethnicity -- Kenya -- Congresses; Ethnicity -- Tanzania -- Congresses; Ethnicity -- Africa, East; Massaï (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Identité ethnique; Ethnicité -- Afrique orientale anglophone; Massaï (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Identité ethnique -- Congrès; Massaï (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Mœurs et coutumes -- Congrès; Ethnicité -- Kenya -- Congrès; Ethnicity; Maasai (African people) -- Ethnic identity; Maasai (African people) -- Social life and customs; Ethnische Identität; Hirtenkultur; Nomadismus; Massai; Stamm; Masai; Maasai (African people); Masaï (peuple d'Afrique) -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Congrès; Ethnicité -- Kenya -- Congrès; Ethnicité -- Tanzanie -- Congrès; Masaï (peuple d'Afrique) -- Identité collective -- Congrès; Africa, East; Kenya; Tanzania; Ostafrika; Congress; Conference papers and proceedings; Conference papers and proceedings; Actes de congrès
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782047803; 1782047808
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