Being Maasai : ethnicity & identity in East Africa /
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Imprint: | London : J. Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press, c1993. |
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Description: | xi, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Eastern African studies Eastern African studies (London, England) |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1485120 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1. Introduction1
- Notes
- Part 2. Becoming Maasai
- Introduction
- 1. Dialects, Sectiolects, or Simply Lects?: The Maa Language in Time Perspective
- 2. Becoming Maasailand
- 3. Maasai Expansion & the New East African Pastoralism*
- 4. Aspects of 'Becoming Turkana': Interactions & Assimilation Between Maa- & Ateker-Speakers
- 5. Defeat & Dispersal: The Laikipiak & Their Neighbours at the End of the Nineteenth Century
- 6. Being 'Maasai', but Not 'People of Cattle': Arusha Agricultural Maasai in the Nineteenth Century
- Part 3. Being Maasai
- Introduction
- 7. Becoming Maasai, Being in Time
- Conclusion: Unbecoming Maasai
- Notes
- 8. the World of Telelia: Reflections of a Maasai Woman in Matapato
- Notes
- 9. 'the Eye That Wants a Person, Where Can It Not See?'
- Conclusion: Shifting Boundaries, Boundary Shifters
- Notes
- 10. Aesthetics, Expertise, & Ethnicity: Okiek & Maasai Perspectives on Personal Ornament
- Part 4. Contestations & Redefinitions
- Introduction
- 11. Acceptees & Aliens *: Kikuyu Settlement in Maasailand
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 12. Land as Ours, Land as Mine: Economic, Political & Ecological Marginalization in Kajiado District*
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 13. Maa-Speakers of the Northern Desert: Recent Developments in Ariaal & Rendille Identity
- Part 5. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index