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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Being Maasai. London : J. Currey ; Dar es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota ; Nairobi : EAEP ; Athens : Ohio University Press, c1993 (OCoLC)624397617 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas T Spear; Richard Waller; African Studies Association. Meeting |
| ISBN: | 0852552165 9780852552162 0852552157 9780852552155 0821410296 9780821410295 0821410458 9780821410455 |
| OCLC Number: | 28547621 |
| Notes: | Chiefly papers presented at the African Studies Association Meeting in Atlanta in 1989. |
| Description: | xi, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Eastern African studies (London, England) |
| Responsibility: | edited by Thomas Spear & Richard Waller. |
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