Being Maasai : ethnicity & identity in East Africa /: ethnicity & identity in East Africa. (1993)
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- Book
- Title:
- Being Maasai : ethnicity & identity in East Africa /: ethnicity & identity in East Africa. (1993)
- Main Title:
- Being Maasai : ethnicity & identity in East Africa
- 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
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- 9781782047803
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