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Being Maasai Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa.
A multi-disciplinary approach to studying ethnicity in Africa.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Martlesham :
Boydell & Brewer, Limited,
1993.
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| Series: | Eastern African studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Maps, Figures & Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- I. Introduction
- II. Becoming Maasai
- Introduction
- 1. Dialects, Sectiolects, or Simply Lects? The Maa Language in Time Perspective
- 2. Becoming Maasailand
- 3. Maasai Expansion and the New East African Pastoralism
- 4. Aspects of 'Becoming Turkana': Interactions and Assimilation Between Maa- and Ateker-Speakers
- 5. Defeat and Dispersal: The Laikipiak and their Neighbours at the End of the Nineteenth Century
- 6. Being 'Maasai', but not 'People of Cattle': Arusha Agricultural Maasai in the Nineteenth Century
- III. Being Maasai
- Introduction
- 7. Becoming Maasai, Being in Time
- 8. The World of Telelia: Reflections of a Maasai Woman in Matapato
- 9. 'The Eye that Wants a Person, Where Can It Not See?': Inclusion, Exclusion, and Boundary Shifters in Maasai Identity
- 10. Aesthetics, Expertise, and Ethnicity: Okiek and Maasai Perspectives on Personal Ornament
- IV. Contestations and Redefinitions
- Introduction
- 11 Acceptees and Aliens: Kikuyu Settlement in Maasailand
- 12. Land as Ours, Land as Mine: Economic, Political and Ecological Marginalization in Kajiado District
- 13. Maa-Speakers of the Northern Desert: Recent Developments in Ariaal and Rendille Identity
- V. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index