Being Maasai : ethnicity & identity in East Africa /

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Imprint:London : J. Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press, c1993.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Spear, Thomas T.
Waller, Richard, active 1665-1705
ISBN:0852552157 (pbk.)
0852552165 (cloth)
0821410458 (pbk.)
0821410296 (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-316) and index.
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